Llama 3 8B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

Llama 3 8B Instruct was released on April 18, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.030 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

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.030

Output$0.040

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output66 tok/s

TTFT0.39s

median latency

Capabilities

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Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama 3 8B 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 8B Instruct	$0.030	$0.040	9.6	40.5	29.6	8,192	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	$0.020	$0.050	11.6	47.6	25.9	16,384	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Nemo	$0.020	$0.040	—	26.4	8.7	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.200	1.9	20.0	19.6	60,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3.1 24B	$0.030	$0.110	21.2	65.9	45.4	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-20b	$0.030	$0.140	77.7	74.8	68.8	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	$0.030	$0.090	12.6	47.3	33.9	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 12B	$0.030	$0.100	13.7	59.5	34.9	131,072	Try
M Deepseek	R1 Distill Llama 70B	$0.030	$0.110	26.6	79.5	40.2	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	$0.030	$0.110	29.5	63.5	41.7	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 2 9B	$0.030	$0.090	—	31.9	14.8	8,192	Try

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

Compare Providers

Llama 3 8B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.030

Cheapest Input/M

$0.040

Cheapest Output/M

DeepInfra

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
D DeepInfra Best Price	$0.030	$0.040	100.0%
N Novita	$0.040	$0.040	100.0%
T Together	$0.100	$0.100	98.8%
C Cloudflare	$0.280	$0.830	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

8.7 (3th pct)

Coding

4.0 (3th pct)

Math

MMLU Pro

40.5 (8th pct)

GPQA

29.6 (9th pct)

LiveCodeBench

9.6 (3th pct)

AIME

- (0th pct)

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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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