Llama 3.1 70B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct was released on July 23, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.400 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.400

Output$0.400

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output43 tok/s

TTFT0.46s

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama 3.1 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 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.400	$0.400	23.2	67.6	40.9	131,072	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.7	$0.400	$1.500	56.2	79.4	66.4	202,752	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2 Thinking	$0.400	$1.750	85.3	84.8	83.8	262,144	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Medium 3.1	$0.400	$2.000	40.6	68.3	58.8	131,072	Try
MI Mistral AI	Devstral Medium	$0.400	$2.000	33.7	70.8	49.2	131,072	Try
MM Minimax	MiniMax M1	$0.400	$2.200	65.7	80.8	68.2	1,000,000	Try
DS Deepseek	R1 0528	$0.400	$1.750	77.0	84.9	81.3	163,840	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Medium 3	$0.400	$2.000	40.0	76.0	57.8	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-4.1 Mini	$0.400	$1.600	48.3	78.1	66.4	1,047,576	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen-Plus	$0.400	$1.200	—	—	—	1,000,000	Try
TD Thedrummer	UnslopNemo 12B	$0.400	$0.400	—	—	—	32,768	Try

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

Compare Providers

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.340

Cheapest Input/M

$0.390

Cheapest Output/M

Novita

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N Novita Best Price	$0.340	$0.390	-
H Hyperbolic	$0.400	$0.400	100.0%
D DeepInfra	$0.400	$0.400	100.0%
T Together	$0.880	$0.880	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

12.2 (14th pct)

Coding

10.9 (21th pct)

Math

4.0 (4th pct)

MMLU Pro

67.6 (26th pct)

GPQA

40.9 (18th pct)

LiveCodeBench

23.2 (16th pct)

AIME

17.3 (34th pct)

Aider

58.6 (45th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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