Decision snapshot
Where this family fits
- Suitable for
- Teams that need downloadable weights, deployment control, fine-tuning, or a broad hosting ecosystem and can operate the inference path.
- Access
- Open weights · Local-capable · Hosted API
- Capabilities
- General & Reasoning · Vision & Multimodal
- Weights
- Llama 4 weights are downloadable under the custom Llama 4 Community License, not Apache 2.0 or MIT.
Decision boundary
Open weights do not mean unrestricted open source. Review the Llama Community License, acceptable-use policy, hardware needs, and the terms of any hosting provider.
Selected current releases
Exact names and model IDs
This is a maintained selection from official sources, not a complete catalog. Provider status labels are preserved instead of converted into a Richbay score.
| Release | Provider status | Access and modality | Context | Weights / license |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Llama 4 Scout Instruct ↗meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct | Released | Open weights + hosted providersText + image input → text + code | 10M tokens | Open weights · Llama 4 Community License |
Llama 4 Maverick Instruct ↗meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct | Released | Open weights + hosted providersText + image input → text + code | 1M tokens | Open weights · Llama 4 Community License |