What are the hardware requirements for Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E requires approximately 193.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E and how large is it?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E is developed by unsloth, a model with 17b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E by unsloth — VRAM 193.1GB

Name: Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E
Author: unsloth

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 17b LLM, VRAM: 193.1GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E
Model Size	17b
Required VRAM	193.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama4
Model Files	3.9 GB: 1-of-50 4.4 GB: 2-of-50 4.4 GB: 3-of-50 4.4 GB: 4-of-50 4.4 GB: 5-of-50 4.4 GB: 6-of-50 4.4 GB: 7-of-50 4.4 GB: 8-of-50 4.4 GB: 9-of-50 4.4 GB: 10-of-50 4.4 GB: 11-of-50 4.4 GB: 12-of-50 4.4 GB: 13-of-50 4.4 GB: 14-of-50 4.4 GB: 15-of-50 4.4 GB: 16-of-50 4.4 GB: 17-of-50 4.4 GB: 18-of-50 4.4 GB: 19-of-50 4.4 GB: 20-of-50 4.4 GB: 21-of-50 4.4 GB: 22-of-50 4.4 GB: 23-of-50 4.4 GB: 24-of-50 4.4 GB: 25-of-50 4.4 GB: 26-of-50 4.4 GB: 27-of-50 4.4 GB: 28-of-50 4.4 GB: 29-of-50 4.4 GB: 30-of-50 4.4 GB: 31-of-50 4.4 GB: 32-of-50 4.4 GB: 33-of-50 4.4 GB: 34-of-50 4.4 GB: 35-of-50 4.4 GB: 36-of-50 4.4 GB: 37-of-50 4.4 GB: 38-of-50 4.4 GB: 39-of-50 4.4 GB: 40-of-50 4.4 GB: 41-of-50 4.4 GB: 42-of-50 4.4 GB: 43-of-50 4.4 GB: 44-of-50
Supported Languages	ar de en es fr hi id it pt th tl vi
Model Architecture	Llama4ForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.51.0.dev0

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Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct	0K / 188.7 GB	3586	57
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...ama Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Bf16	0K / 207.3 GB	790	2
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Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E	0K / 664 GB	44	6
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth	0K / 197.5 GB	16	1
...Maverick 17B 16E Instruct 4bit	0K / 146.3 GB	419	7
... 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct 6bit	0K / 88.8 GB	333	5
...averick 17B 128E Instruct 6bit	0K / 201.1 GB	125	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E.