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Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Llama 4 Scout from Llama and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen 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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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
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Llama 4 Scout
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.2
$1.69
Output /M
$0.2
$5.07
Cache read /M
-
$0.169
Context length
131,072
1,000,000
Max output
131,000
131,072
Time to First Token
0.9 s
12.5 s
Throughput
147.6 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
April 5, 2025
August 3, 2026

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
llama-4-scoutqwen3.8-max
12601320138014401500
Overall
13231482
Coding
13621362
Math
13091309
Hard prompts
13301330
Instruction following
13001300
Multi-turn
13201320
Creative writing
12901290
Longer query
13271327
Chinese
13151315
English
13411341
Vision
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1100116012201280
Overall
11281301
OCR
11291129
Diagram
11471147
Homework
11491149

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.

Llama 4 Scout
$15.00 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Llama 4 Scout, Qwen3.8 Max?

Llama 4 Scout: $0.2/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Llama 4 Scout: 0.9s 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?

Llama 4 Scout accepts 131,072 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 131,000 tokens on Llama 4 Scout and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 4 Scout at 147.6 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Llama 4 Scout accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Llama 4 Scout and Qwen3.8 Max 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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