Models

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Llama 4 Scout

Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Llama 4 Scout from Llama on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.

Input$0.142 /M
Output$0.284 /M
Cache read$0.0284 /M
Llama logo
Llama 4 Scout
Llama · text, image → text

Llama 4 Scout is a highly efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, activating 17B out of 109B total parameters per inference. It natively supports multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout features a massive 10-million-token context window. It is instruction-tuned for tasks like multilingual chat and image understanding and is released under the Llama 4 Community License for local or commercial deployment.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.2 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Scout
Input /M
$0.142
$0.2
Output /M
$0.284
$0.2
Cache read /M
$0.0284
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Context length
1,000,000
131,072
Max output
384,000
131,000
Time to First Token
1.0 s
0.3 s
Throughput
66.5 tok/s
2637.0 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsthinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
April 24, 2026
April 5, 2025

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
deepseek-v4-flashllama-4-scout
12601320138014401500
Overall
13231436
Coding
13621483
Math
13091426
Hard prompts
13301459
Instruction following
13001428
Multi-turn
13201452
Creative writing
12901408
Longer query
13271448
Chinese
13151473
English
13411445

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$12.78 /mo
Llama 4 Scout
$15.00 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout: $0.2/M output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; Llama 4 Scout: 1362 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Llama 4 Scout: 0.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Llama 4 Scout accepts 131,072 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash and 131,000 tokens on Llama 4 Scout.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 4 Scout at 2637.0 tok/s and DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Llama 4 Scout accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call DeepSeek V4 Flash and Llama 4 Scout with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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