Scheduled for retirement on Mar 30, 2027. Still available at the prices below until then.
Context
8K
Max output
8K
Serving providers
7
Cheapest input
$0.03 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: Artificial AnalysisHeadline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
| Benchmark | Best score | Effort | Cost / task | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 1.6 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| GPQA Diamond | 30% | default | — | |||||||||||||
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| Humanity's Last Exam | 5% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| IFBench | 25% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| LiveCodeBench | 10% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Long-Context Reasoning | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 40% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience | -70.1 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.1 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.1 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 12% | — | — | |||||||||||||
| TerminalBench Hard | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| τ²-bench | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expandInput pricing runs from $0.03 to $0.30 per 1M tokens across 7 providers, so the dearest route costs 900% more than the cheapest for the same model.
| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | ||||||||||
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| DeepInfraCheapest | $0.03 | $0.06 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standarddeepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
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| Novita | $0.04 | $0.04 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardnovita/meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct
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| Replicate | $0.05 | $0.25 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardreplicate/meta/llama-3-8b-instruct
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| Anyscale | $0.15 | $0.15 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardanyscale/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
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| Gradient AI | $0.20 | $0.20 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardgradient_ai/llama3-8b-instruct
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| Together AI | $0.20 | $0.20 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardtogether_ai/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
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| Amazon Bedrock | $0.30 | $0.60 | 1 | ||||||||||
Standardbedrock/us-east-1/meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Input down 40% since first tracked
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$11
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformdeepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instructnovita/meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instructreplicate/meta/llama-3-8b-instructanyscale/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instructgradient_ai/llama3-8b-instructtogether_ai/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instructbedrock/us-east-1/meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0
Frequently asked questions
Llama 3 8B Instruct pricing, context and availabilityIs Llama 3 8B Instruct still available?
Yes. Llama 3 8B Instruct is scheduled for retirement on 2027-03-30.
How much does Llama 3 8B Instruct cost?
Llama 3 8B Instruct costs $0.03 per 1M input tokens from DeepInfra, and $0.04 per 1M output tokens from Novita. Across 7 serving providers, input prices range from $0.03 to $0.30 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window of Llama 3 8B Instruct?
Llama 3 8B Instruct accepts up to 8K tokens of context and can return up to 8K output tokens.
Which providers serve Llama 3 8B Instruct?
Llama 3 8B Instruct is available from 7 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. DeepInfra is currently the cheapest.
What can Llama 3 8B Instruct do?
Llama 3 8B Instruct supports tool use and structured output.
Other Meta models
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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026
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