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Llama 3 8B Instruct vs Llama 3 8B Lunaris

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Llama 3 8B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
  • Better at coding

Llama 3 8B Lunaris wins:

  • Higher intelligence benchmark
Price Advantage
Llama 3 8B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Llama 3 8B Instruct
Context Window
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Speed
Llama 3 8B Instruct

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricLlama 3 8B InstructLlama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.03$0.04 Llama 3 8B Instruct
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.04$0.05 Llama 3 8B Instruct
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3 8B Instruct is 24% cheaper overall.

Llama 3 8B Instruct Providers

DeepInfra $0.03 (Cheapest)
Novita $0.04
Together $0.10
Cloudflare $0.28

Llama 3 8B Lunaris Providers

DeepInfra $0.04 (Cheapest)
Novita $0.05

Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
2
Llama 3 8B Instruct Wins
1
Llama 3 8B Lunaris Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkLlama 3 8B InstructLlama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
8.725.6
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
4.0--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
40.531.0
GPQA
Graduate-level science
29.66.8
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
9.6--
AIME
Competition math
0.0--
BBH
Big-Bench Hard
-32.1-
Llama 3 8B Instruct wins 2 out of 7 benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Llama 3 8B Instruct
8,192
tokens
Max output: 16,384 tokens
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
8,192
tokens

Speed Performance

MetricLlama 3 8B InstructLlama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Tokens/second66.3 tok/sN/A
Time to First Token0.39sN/A

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureLlama 3 8B InstructLlama 3 8B Lunaris
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyLlama 3 8B InstructLlama 3 8B Lunaris
LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source
AuthorMeta-llamaSao10k
ReleasedApr 2024Aug 2024

Llama 3 8B Instruct Modalities

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Llama 3 8B Lunaris Modalities

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3 8B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.03/M tokens. Llama 3 8B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.04/M tokens.
Llama 3 8B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 4.0, compared to Llama 3 8B Lunaris's score of N/A.
Llama 3 8B Instruct has a 8,192 token context window, while Llama 3 8B Lunaris has a 8,192 token context window.
Llama 3 8B Instruct does not support vision. Llama 3 8B Lunaris does not support vision.