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Run Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct locally

Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct is a 108.6B mixture-of-experts (17B active) model from Meta with a 10M-token context window, released under Llama 4 Community License Agreement (commercial use is allowed with conditions set out in the license); the smallest listed download is 61.1 GB, the 4bit MLX build from mlx-community/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-4bit.

Official weights: meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct - modalities: text, image

Total params
108.6B
Active params
17B
Context
10M
Smallest download
61.1 GB

Fits in

Smallest download at most 85% of memory

Downloads

The official weights and every quantization listed for this model, with file sizes from Hugging Face.

Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct downloads and file sizes
DownloadFormatSizeRepo
Official weightsBF16217.3 GBmeta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct
Q4_K_MGGUF65.4 GBunsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF
Q8_0GGUF114.5 GBunsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF
4bitSmallest listedMLX61.1 GBmlx-community/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-4bit

GB is decimal: 1 GB = 10^9 bytes. Add memory for the context and the operating system on top of the file size.

Run it

Copied verbatim from the page linked under each command. Server commands from model cards often assume a multi-GPU node; check the flags before you run them.

Ollama

Terminal
ollama run llama4:scout

Source: ollama.com/library/llama4

Transformers

Terminal
pip install -U transformers

Source: huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct

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License

Commercial use
Commercial use: ConditionsCommercial use is allowed with conditions set out in the license.
Gated download
Yes. Hugging Face asks you to accept the terms before downloading.

Worth knowing

Gated on Hugging Face behind the Llama 4 Community License form, and the card asks for transformers v4.51.0 or newer.

Released (per the model card).

FAQ

How big is the Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct download?

The official BF16 weights in meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct are 217.3 GB. The smallest listed download is 61.1 GB, the 4bit MLX build from mlx-community/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-4bit. Plan for more memory than the file size: the context (KV cache) and the operating system need room too.

Can I use Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct commercially?

Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct is released under Llama 4 Community License Agreement, and commercial use is allowed with conditions set out in the license. The Hugging Face download is gated: you accept the license terms before it starts. The license text is at https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/llama4/LICENSE.

How much memory do I need for Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct?

By this directory's rule of thumb it fits in 128 GB and up: the smallest listed download, 61.1 GB, is at most 85% of 128 GB, which leaves room for the context and the operating system.

How do I run Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct with Ollama?

Run "ollama run llama4:scout", as shown at https://ollama.com/library/llama4. The Ollama library lists the llama4:scout tag at 67GB.

What is the context length of Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct?

10,000,000 tokens. A longer context needs more memory for the KV cache, so you can run with a shorter one when memory is tight.

Sources

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