Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API Pricing 2026

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

Overview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was released on July 23, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.020 per million input tokens and $0.050 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 16K tokens. API access is available through Meta-llama.

Context Window

16K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.020

Output$0.050

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output162 tok/s

TTFT0.33s

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Llama 3.1 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 3.1 8B Instruct	$0.020	$0.050	11.6	47.6	25.9	16,384	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	$0.000	$0.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking	$0.000	$0.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B	$0.010	$0.020	15.1	50.5	34.4	32,768	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B	$0.010	$0.020	—	—	—	32,768	Try
IB Ibm-granite	Granite 4.0 Micro	$0.017	$0.110	—	—	—	131,000	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 4B	$0.017	$0.068	11.2	41.7	29.1	96,000	Try
MI Nousresearch	DeepHermes 3 Mistral 24B Preview	$0.020	$0.100	19.5	58.0	38.2	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 3n 4B	$0.020	$0.040	14.6	48.8	29.6	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama Guard 3 8B	$0.020	$0.060	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.020	$0.020	8.3	34.7	25.5	131,072	Try

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

Compare Providers

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.020

Cheapest Input/M

$0.050

Cheapest Output/M

Nebius

Best Price

Provider Pricing

10 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
N Nebius Best Price	$0.020	$0.060	99.9%
D DeepInfra Best Price	$0.020	$0.050	99.6%
N Novita Best Price	$0.020	$0.050	99.9%
Groq	$0.050	$0.080	100.0%
S SiliconFlow	$0.060	$0.060	100.0%
F Friendli	$0.100	$0.100	99.9%
H Hyperbolic	$0.100	$0.100	99.8%
S SambaNova	$0.100	$0.200	99.3%
C Cerebras	$0.100	$0.100	99.6%
C Cloudflare	$0.150	$0.290	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

11.7 (12th pct)

Coding

4.9 (5th pct)

Math

4.3 (5th pct)

MMLU Pro

47.6 (11th pct)

GPQA

25.9 (8th pct)

LiveCodeBench

11.6 (4th pct)

AIME

7.7 (10th pct)

Aider

37.6 (15th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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