Llama 3.1 8B Instruct vs Nova Pro Comparison

Comparing Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and Nova Pro across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct outperforms in 1 benchmarks (BFCL), while Nova Pro is better at 6 benchmarks (ARC-C, DROP, GPQA, HumanEval, IFEval, MMLU).

Nova Pro significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs less

For input processing, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ($0.03/1M tokens) is 26.7x cheaper than Nova Pro ($0.80/1M tokens).

For output processing, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ($0.03/1M tokens) is 106.7x cheaper than Nova Pro ($3.20/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Nova Pro is more expensive than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.*

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

Lowest available price from all providers

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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Input tokens$0.03

Output tokens$0.03

Best providerLambda

Nova Pro

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$3.20

Best providerAWS Bedrock

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Nova Pro accepts 300,000 input tokens compared to Llama 3.1 8B Instruct's 131,072 tokens. Nova Pro can generate longer responses up to 300,000 tokens, while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is limited to 131,072 tokens.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Input131,072 tokens

Output131,072 tokens

Nova Pro

Input300,000 tokens

Output300,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Nova Pro supports multimodal inputs, whereas Llama 3.1 8B Instruct does not.

Nova Pro can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Nova Pro

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is licensed under Llama 3.1 Community License, while Nova Pro uses a proprietary license.

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

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Nova Pro

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23, while Nova Pro was released on 2024-11-20.

Nova Pro is 4 months newer than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

Nova Pro

Nov 20, 2024

1.3 years ago

4mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while Nova Pro's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 8B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Nova Pro's cutoff date.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Dec 2023

Nova Pro

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Provider Availability

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available from Lambda, DeepInfra, Groq, Sambanova, Cerebras, Hyperbolic, Together, Fireworks, Bedrock. Nova Pro is available from Bedrock. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.