Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is a text model by Meta. 5 providers serve it, from $0.40 to $0.72 /1M; the lowest price is at OpenRouter.
How Llama 3.1 70B Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.40 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 71% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #95 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 5 providers serve it; 65% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Llama 3.1 license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.40/1M | From$0.40/1M | — | 131K |
 AIHubMix | $0.44/1M | From$0.44/1M | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.72/1M | $0.72/1M | — | 128K |
 Amazon Bedrock | $0.72/1M | From$0.72/1M | — | — |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.72/1M | From$0.72/1M | — | — |
- OpenRouterFrom$0.40
- AIHubMixFrom$0.44
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.72
- Amazon BedrockFrom$0.72
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.72
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Meta
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 16K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Jul 16, 2024
- License
- Llama 3.1commercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 71B
- Arena score
- 1261Text
Alternatives to Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 70B Instructthis model | $0.40/1M | 131K | 1261 | 5 |
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| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
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The lowest price for Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is $0.40 /1M, at OpenRouter.
OpenRouter, at $0.40 /1M. 5 providers serve Llama 3.1 70B Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 16K.
Yes. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Llama 3.1 license.
About 71B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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