Llama 3 70B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Llama 3 70B Instruct was released on April 18, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.510 per million input tokens and $0.740 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 8K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.510

Output$0.740

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output39 tok/s

TTFT0.47s

median latency

Capabilities

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Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama 3 70B Instruct with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
M Meta-llama	Llama 3 70B Instruct	$0.510	$0.740	19.8	57.4	37.9	8,192	Try
TD Thedrummer	UnslopNemo 12B	$0.400	$0.400	—	—	—	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.400	$0.400	23.2	67.6	40.9	131,072	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B	$0.420	$1.250	—	—	—	123,000	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2.5	$0.450	$0.440	—	—	78.9	262,144	Try
U9 Undi95	ReMM SLERP 13B	$0.450	$0.650	—	—	—	6,144	Try
AR Arcee AI	Coder Large	$0.500	$0.800	—	—	—	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemini 3 Flash Preview	$0.500	$3.000	79.7	88.2	81.2	1,048,576	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large 3 2512	$0.500	$1.500	—	—	—	262,144	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2 0711	$0.500	$2.400	55.6	82.4	76.6	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo	$0.500	$1.500	—	46.2	29.7	16,385	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Llama 3 70B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.510

Cheapest Input/M

$0.740

Cheapest Output/M

Novita

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N Novita Best Price	$0.510	$0.740	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

10.2 (8th pct)

Coding

6.8 (8th pct)

Math

MMLU Pro

57.4 (16th pct)

GPQA

37.9 (14th pct)

LiveCodeBench

19.8 (14th pct)

AIME

- (0th pct)

Aider

49.2 (28th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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