Context
200K
Max output
131K
Serving providers
6
Cheapest input
$0.02 /1M
Prices are on-demand list rates. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: Artificial AnalysisSpeed & latency
Output speed
88 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
6.90s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
| Benchmark | Best score | Effort | Cost / task | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | default | — | |
| EvalComputeProxy | 1374.4 | default | — | |
| GDPval | -123.7 | default | — | |
| GPQA Diamond | 26% | default | — | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5% | default | — | |
| IFBench | 29% | default | — | |
| LiveCodeBench | 12% | default | — | |
| Long-Context Reasoning | 16% | default | — | |
| MMLU-Pro | 48% | default | — | |
| Omniscience | -30.3 | default | — | |
| SciCode | 13% | default | — | |
| TerminalBench Hard | 1% | default | — | |
| TerminalBench v2.1 | 2% | default | — | |
| τ-bench Banking | 2% | default | — | |
| τ²-bench | 16% | default | — |
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expandInput pricing runs from $0.02 to $0.72 per 1M tokens across 6 providers, so the dearest route costs 3500% more than the cheapest for the same model.
| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | ||||||||||||||||
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| NovitaCheapest | $0.02 | $0.05 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nscale | $0.03 | $0.03 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ovhcloud | $0.10 | $0.10 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Databricks | $0.15 | $0.45 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Perplexity | $0.20 | $0.20 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| OCI | $0.72 | $0.72 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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Price history
input + output $/1M since we started tracking Input Output
Input down 93% since first tracked
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$8
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformnovita/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instructnscale/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instructovhcloud/Llama-3.1-8B-Instructdatabricks/databricks-meta-llama-3-1-8b-instructperplexity/llama-3.1-8b-instructoci/meta.llama-3.1-8b-instruct
Frequently asked questions
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing, context and availabilityHow much does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost?
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.02 per 1M input tokens and $0.03 per 1M output tokens at its cheapest provider via Novita. Across 6 serving providers, input prices range from $0.02 to $0.72 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct accepts up to 200K tokens of context and can return up to 131K output tokens.
Which providers serve Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available from 6 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Novita is currently the cheapest.
What can Llama 3.1 8B Instruct do?
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports tool use and structured output.
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