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Llama 4: license, size and what is open.

Meta’s first natively multimodal Llama generation and first Llama mixture-of-experts release.

License

Custom or artifact-specific terms: read them. Commercial use is allowed subject to the custom license, including an additional term for services above 700 million monthly active users.

Llama 4 Community License Agreement ↗

Sizes and download

Scout: 109B / 17B active; Maverick: 400B / 17B active

Llama 4 Scout
Total: 109B. Active: 17B. Source ↗
Llama 4 Maverick
Total: 400B. Active: 17B. Source ↗

About 217.28 GB of selected documented weights · File listing ↗

Selected artifact: meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct. Format: Safetensors, BF16. File evidence checked 2026-10-11. Selected artifact license: Llama 4 Community License Agreement ↗

Scout Instruct only, 109B total and 17B active, not Maverick. Public API lists 50 shards. Gated index/config returned 401; no login/agreement acceptance or bypass. Selected weight files only; supporting files and runtime memory are separate. Not a smallest-download census or proof of hardware compatibility.

Can my computer run it?

Compatibility, runtime memory and speed are untested by Bright.

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Nine things to check

Source check: . Downloads, when known, carry their own check date.

Checked release: Scout and Maverick
Sources checked 2026-09-19

Llama 4 Scout and Maverick release
· Primary source

The profile describes this checkpoint, not every release carrying the family name. Developer documentation is not independent reproduction.

THE MODEL / THE TERMS

Know what you are picking up.

Parameters
Scout: 109B / 17B active; Maverick: 400B / 17B active
Architecture
Early-fusion multimodal mixture-of-experts transformer.
Modalities
text · image
Context
Scout: 10M tokens; Maverick: 1M tokens
Weights license
Llama 4 Community License Agreement
Commercial use
Commercial use is allowed subject to the custom license, including an additional term for services above 700 million monthly active users.
Memory
Scout is described as fitting on one H100 in Int4; Maverick is described as fitting on one H100 host.
Known quantizations
Meta states Scout can fit on one H100 with Int4 quantization

Specifications are developer-reported. Primary release documentation ↗ · All sources and terms

NINE DIMENSIONS / NO OPENNESS SCORE

What is actually available?

Each component has its own evidence. “Not established” means this source review did not verify availability; it is not a claim that nothing exists.

WHY THIS RELEASE MATTERS

What to explore.

  • Native multimodality
  • Very long context on Scout
  • Large deployment ecosystem

WHAT THE RECORD DOES NOT ESTABLISH

Keep the limits.

  • Custom license is not OSI-approved
  • Training data and full training stack are not released

This record does not independently reproduce Meta’s comparative benchmark claims.

Explore the memory tradeoffs↗

CONNECTED EVIDENCE

A release becomes a starting point.

Thematic or family connections, not proof that an older application uses the selected checkpoint.

FOLLOW THE RECORD

Sources, not superlatives.

  1. The Llama 4 herd ↗ (institution)

Source check: 2026-09-19. AI-assisted editorial review, with no named external expert or independent hardware validation claimed. Licenses and model cards can change. Review the linked terms for the specific artifact and intended use.

Understand open source vs open weights ↗