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Devstral Small 2505 vs Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e
This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.
Model
Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e
Context window
10M
10,000,000 tokens · ~7.5M words
Context window · side by side
Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.
Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e has about 78.1× the context window of the other in this pair.
Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e has 7712% more context capacity (10000K vs 128K tokens). Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e is 50% cheaper on input.
Quick verdicts
Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.
Long document processing
Use Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e. Its 10000K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 128K).
RAG / high-volume retrieval
Use Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e. Input tokens are 50% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.
Long output (reports, code files)
Use Devstral Small 2505. Its 128K max output lets you generate complete artifacts in one request.
Full specs
Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.
| Spec | Devstral Small 2505 | Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128,000 tokens (128K) | 10,000,000 tokens (10000K) |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 tokens (128K) | 16,384 tokens (16K) |
| Speed tier | Balanced | Fast |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Function calling | Yes | Yes |
| Extended thinking | No | No |
| Prompt caching | No | No |
| Batch API | No | No |
| Release date | N/A | N/A |
Pricing matrix
Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.
| Provider | Devstral Small 2505 in | Devstral Small 2505 out | Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e in | Llama 4 Scout 17b 16e out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | — | — | $0.200/M | $0.780/M |
| Deepinfra | — | — | $0.080/M | $0.300/M |
| Fireworks | $0.900/M | $0.900/M | — | — |
| Groq | — | — | $0.110/M | $0.340/M |
| Lambda | — | — | $0.050/M | $0.100/M |
| Mistral | $0.100/M | $0.300/M | — | — |
| Novita | — | — | $0.180/M | $0.590/M |
| Nscale | — | — | $0.090/M | $0.290/M |
| Sambanova | — | — | $0.400/M | $0.700/M |
| Together Ai | — | — | $0.180/M | $0.590/M |
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