Llama 3.1 8b Instruct
Meta · model · context window 16,000 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? Llama 3.1 8b Instruct is on the price/quality frontier — nothing we track matches its overall Arena score for less. If you can accept a small quality drop, the downgrade calculator finds cheaper options.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 27 August 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run Llama 3.1 8b Instruct
The same model is resold by 11 providers we track. The typical one charges 2.4× what the cheapest does — $0.0600 against $0.0250 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inference | $0.0250 | $0.0250 | $0.0250 |
| Kilo | $0.0200 | $0.0400 | $0.0250 |
| Helicone | $0.0200 | $0.0500 | $0.0280 |
| Novita AI | $0.0200 | $0.0500 | $0.0280 |
| OpenRouter ↗ | $0.0500 | $0.0800 | $0.0580 |
| Huggingface | $0.0600 | $0.0600 | $0.0600 |
| NanoGPT | $0.0540 | $0.0850 | $0.0620 |
| Cortecs | $0.1670 | $0.1670 | $0.1670 |
| Pioneer | $0.2000 | $0.2000 | $0.2000 |
| Merge Gateway | $0.2200 | $0.2200 | $0.2200 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 11. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with Llama 3.1 8b Instruct
Llama 3.1 8b Instruct is pre-selected below. Enter your token counts and volume to see the cost per request, per day and per month — then switch models to compare.
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- Input cost
- $0.0000250
- Output cost
- $0.0000125
- Per request
- $0.0000375
- Per day
- $0.0375
- Per month
- $1.13
Source: community-hosted (cheapest of 11 providers, inference via models.dev). Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 27 August 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.