How much does Meta Llama 3 8B cost?

The lowest price for Meta Llama 3 8B is $0.25 /1M, at Replicate.

Is Meta Llama 3 8B open source?

Yes. Meta Llama 3 8B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Llama 3 license.

About 8B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.

1 API providers serve Meta Llama 3 8B. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.

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Meta Llama 3 8B is a text model by Meta. One provider serves it: Replicate, at $0.25 /1M.

Lowest price$0.25/1Mat Replicate

Maker's price—The maker does not sell it

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Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

Cheap for its class: at $0.25 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 80% of comparable models (median $1.10).
1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Its weights are open under the Llama 3 license: commercial use under the maker's terms.

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
Replicate	$0.05/1M	$0.25/1M	—	—

Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.

Get the weightsHugging Face474K downloads in 30 daysAccept the terms on Hugging Face before downloading

Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.

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Meta Llama 3 8Bthis model	$0.25/1M	—	—	1
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