Side-by-side comparison of Llama 4 Scout (Meta · USA) and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 4 Scout is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B is conditional. They part ways on training data: Llama 4 Scout is "Undisclosed", Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B is "Partial".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Smaller Llama 4 variant: 17B active over 16 experts, multimodal. More self-hostable than Maverick. Same Llama community licence caveats. | Conditional NVIDIA's Llama 3.1 fine-tune with custom RLHF. Inherits Llama 3.1 Community License terms. Strong conversational quality; useful default when you want Llama behaviour with NVIDIA's alignment. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama community | Llama community |
| Commercial use | With caps | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Partial |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 14/100 | 13/100 |
| Speed | 128 tok/s | 42 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.29/M | $1.20/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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