Side-by-side comparison of Llama 4 Scout (Meta · USA) and MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMax AI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 4 Scout is rated conditional; MiniMax-M2.7 is blocked. They part ways on licence: Llama 4 Scout is "Llama community", MiniMax-M2.7 is "MiniMax Non-Commercial License".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Smaller Llama 4 variant: 17B active over 16 experts, multimodal. More self-hostable than Maverick. Same Llama community licence caveats. | Blocked Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama community | MiniMax Non-Commercial License |
| Commercial use | With caps | Non-commercial only |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 14/100 | 50/100 |
| Speed | 128 tok/s | 46 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.29/M | $0.53/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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