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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API pricing
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta’s model on the API market, released 23 Jul 2024. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$0.050Input / 1M
$0.080Output / 1M
131KContext
118KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- Meta
- Model id
meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct- Input
- $0.050
- Output
- $0.080
- Cached input
- $0.025
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Maximum output
- 118K tokens
- Takes
- text
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Not reported
- Released
- 23 Jul 2024
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $0.050 per million input tokens, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is dearer than 16 of the 326 models on the price list.
Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
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Prices and specifications come from OpenRouter’s catalogue, last read 17 Sept 2026. A provider’s own price may differ; how this is collected.