Llama 3.1 8b Instruct
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Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Price history
All price changes →Llama 3.1 8b Instruct has had 2 tracked price changes since we began monitoring. Most recent: output $0.0250 → $0.0400 on 5 September 2026. All-time low input rate: $0.0200/1M.
Recorded from our daily pricing checks. See the full LLM price tracker.
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
- $0.0000200
- Output cost
- $0.0000200
- Per request
- $0.0000400
- Per day
- $0.0400
- Per month
- $1.20
Source: community-hosted (cheapest of 11 providers, kilo via models.dev). Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 11 October 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.