Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a text model by Meta. 11 providers serve it, from $0.05 to $0.827 /1M; the lowest price is at Novita AI.
How Llama 3.1 8B Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.05 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 98% 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 #109 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 11 providers serve it; 78% 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 8B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Novita AI | $0.02/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.02/1M | From$0.05/1M | — | — |
 Helicone | $0.02/1M | From$0.05/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.05/1M | From$0.05/1M | $0.05/1M | 16K |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.02/1M | $0.05/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.033/1M | From$0.055/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.05/1M | From$0.08/1M | $0.025/1M | 131K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.22/1M | $0.22/1M | — | 128K |
 Amazon Bedrock | $0.22/1M | From$0.22/1M | — | — |
 FastRouter | $0.22/1M | $0.22/1M | — | 8K |
 Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.282/1M | From$0.827/1M | — | — |
- Novita AI$0.05
- Jiekou.AI$0.05
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.05
- HeliconeFrom$0.05
- RequestyFrom$0.05
- AIHubMixFrom$0.055
- OpenRouterFrom$0.08
- Vercel AI Gateway$0.22
- FastRouter$0.22
- Amazon BedrockFrom$0.22
- Cloudflare Workers AIFrom$0.827
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Meta
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 118K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Jul 18, 2024
- License
- Llama 3.1commercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 8B
- Arena score
- 1187Text
- Monthly searches
- 3K
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The lowest price for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is $0.05 /1M, at Novita AI.
Novita AI, at $0.05 /1M. 11 providers serve Llama 3.1 8B Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 118K.
Yes. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Llama 3.1 license.
About 8B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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