Jamba 1.5 Large vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Jamba 1.5 Large and Llama 3.1 70B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Jamba 1.5 Large outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is better at 4 benchmarks (ARC-C, GPQA, MMLU, MMLU-Pro).

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct costs less

For input processing, Jamba 1.5 Large ($2.00/1M tokens) is 10.0x more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

For output processing, Jamba 1.5 Large ($8.00/1M tokens) is 40.0x more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Jamba 1.5 Large is more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Jamba 1.5 Large

Input tokens$2.00

Output tokens$8.00

Best providerAWS Bedrock

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Input tokens$0.20

Output tokens$0.20

Best providerLambda

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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

328.0B diff

Jamba 1.5 Large has 328.0B more parameters than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, making it 468.6% larger.

Jamba 1.5 Large

398.0Bparameters

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

70.0Bparameters

398.0B

Jamba 1.5 Large

70.0B

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Jamba 1.5 Large accepts 256,000 input tokens compared to Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's 128,000 tokens. Jamba 1.5 Large can generate longer responses up to 256,000 tokens, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Jamba 1.5 Large

Input256,000 tokens

Output256,000 tokens

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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License

Usage and distribution terms

Jamba 1.5 Large is licensed under Jamba Open Model License, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Jamba 1.5 Large

Jamba Open Model License

Open weights

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Jamba 1.5 Large was released on 2024-08-22, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Jamba 1.5 Large is 1 month newer than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct.

Jamba 1.5 Large

Aug 22, 2024

1.6 years ago

1mo newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Jamba 1.5 Large has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-03-05, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Jamba 1.5 Large's training data extends to 2024-03-05, but cannot make a direct comparison without Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's cutoff date.

Jamba 1.5 Large

Mar 2024

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Provider Availability

Jamba 1.5 Large is available from Bedrock, Google. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available from Lambda, DeepInfra, Hyperbolic, Groq, Cerebras, Together, Fireworks, Bedrock, Sambanova. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.