llama-4-maverick vs llama-4-scout

llama-4-maverick

Llama · text, image → text

Llama 4 Maverick is a high-capacity Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, featuring 400B total parameters and 128 experts, while activating an efficient 17B parameters per inference. Engineered for peak performance, it excels at advanced multimodal tasks. Maverick natively supports text and image input, producing multilingual text and code. With a 1-million-token context window and instruction tuning, it is optimized for complex image reasoning and general-purpose assistant-like interactions. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, Maverick is ideal for research and commercial applications demanding state-of-the-art multimodal understanding and high throughput.

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.