We evaluate the contribution of scalar mesons to the hadronic light-by-light piece of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, using a warped five-dimensional model and holographic methods. We assess the contribution of the lightest, sub-GeV scalars σ(500), a0(980) and f0(990) together with their associated towers of excited states, which the model generates automatically. Our results point at a clearly negative contribution, overwhelmingly dominated by the σ(500) meson, that we estimate at a HLbL,S µ = −9(2) • 10 −11 . This number is in very good agreement with the most recent determinations from dispersive analyses.