How Llama tokenization works
Llama 4 uses a tiktoken-style BPE tokenizer with a large vocabulary; counts here are estimates tuned for English text.
Because Llama is open weight, cost depends on where you run it: your own GPUs, a cloud endpoint, or an inference provider, each with different per-token or per-hour pricing.
Llama 4 Scout supports a 10-million-token context window, the largest in this catalog by far.
Token counts still matter for self-hosting: more tokens means more KV-cache memory and slower responses, even when no one bills you per token.