Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: Pricing, Context Window, Benchmarks, and More

Name: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Author: Meta

Overview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a multilingual large language model optimized for dialogue use cases. It features a 128K context length, state-of-the-art tool use, and strong reasoning capabilities.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was released on July 23, 2024. API access is available through 9 providers, including Lambda, DeepInfra and others.

Performance

Timeline

ReleasedUnknown

Knowledge CutoffUnknown

Specifications

Parameters

8.0B

License

Llama 3.1 Community License

Training Data

Unknown

Benchmarks

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Pricing

Pricing, performance, and capabilities for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct across different providers:

Provider	Input ($/M)	Output ($/M)	Max Input	Max Output	Latency (s)	Throughput	Quantization	Input	Output
Lambda	$0.03	$0.03	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	42.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
DeepInfra	$0.05	$0.05	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	118.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Groq	$0.05	$0.08	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	750.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Sambanova	$0.10	$0.20	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	1050.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Cerebras	$0.10	$0.10	131.1K	131.1K	0.2	2047.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Hyperbolic	$0.10	$0.10	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	200.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Together	$0.20	$0.20	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	194.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Fireworks	$0.20	$0.20	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	292.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video
Bedrock	$0.22	$0.22	131.1K	131.1K	0.5	100.0 c/s	—	Text Image Audio Video	Text Image Audio Video

Price Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Price per 1M input tokens (USD), lower is better

llm-stats.com - Sat Feb 21 2026

Throughput Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Tokens per second, higher is better

llm-stats.com - Sat Feb 21 2026

Latency Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Time to first token (s), lower is better

llm-stats.com - Sat Feb 21 2026

API Access

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FAQ

Common questions about Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was released on July 23, 2024 by Meta.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was created by Meta.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has 8.0 billion parameters.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is released under the Llama 3.1 Community License license. This is an open-source/open-weight license.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a knowledge cutoff of December 2023. This means the model was trained on data up to this date and may not have information about events after this time.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Overview

Performance

Timeline

Specifications

Benchmarks

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Performance Across Datasets

Pricing

Price Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Throughput Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Latency Comparison for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

API Access

Recent Posts

Recent Reviews

FAQ

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