Meta · 2024-07-23
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing
Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $3.21 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $52.20 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $23.52 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Llama models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark Open | $1.25 | $4.25 | $0.15 | 1.05M | $107 |
| Muse Wonder | $4 | $20 | $0.20 | 1.05M | $420 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | $1.25 | $4.25 | $0.15 | 1.05M | $107 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.002 | 1.05M | $6.90 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.002 | 1.05M | $6.90 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.04 | 131K | $27.90 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: questions
How much does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost?
$0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.025. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0001.
What is Llama 3.1 8B Instruct’s context window?
131,072 tokens, with up to 117,964 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Llama 3.1 8B Instruct’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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