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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: price, performance and context

Open Llama 3.1 8B Instruct by Meta costs $0.05 per 1M input and $0.08 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 6.9 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 189 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.05
Output / 1M tokens
$0.08
Context window
131.1K tokens
Max. output
118K tokens
Performance index
6.9 points · rank 189 of 212
Coding index
5.4 points · rank 117 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.07 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2023
In the catalog since
Jul 23, 2024
Capabilities
Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00182,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00225,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0049,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0028,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.0051,900

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