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Llama 3 8B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: May 13, 2026 at 08:24 AM

Overview

Llama 3 8B Instruct was released on April 18, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.040 per million input tokens and $0.040 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 8K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window
8K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.040
Output$0.040
Cached$0.100
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output82 tok/s
TTFT0.50s
median latency
Capabilities
Tools

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

1 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.040
$0.040
9.6
40.5
29.6
8,192
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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
6.4 (1th pct)
Coding
4.0 (5th pct)
Math
-
MMLU Pro
40.5 (10th pct)
GPQA
29.6 (10th pct)
LiveCodeBench
9.6 (4th pct)
AIME
- (0th pct)
Aider
-
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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3 8B Instruct costs $0.000040 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000040 per 1,000 output tokens.

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