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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Name: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Brand: Meta
Price: 0.400000 USD

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The 2024 70B Llama that defined the open-weights chat baseline before Llama 3.3. Still common where hosts haven't upgraded yet.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is a efficient AI model from Meta. It costs $0.400 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens (blended $0.400/M), with a 131,072-token context window.

Profile inherited from upstream Llama 3.1 70B ↗ — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model.

Released Jul 2024Modalities textOfficial model page ↗API docs ↗Pricing source ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →

INPUT

$0.400/M

per million input tokens

OUTPUT

$0.400/M

per million output tokens

BLENDED 70/30

$0.400/M

unchanged since 3 May

default reference rate · how it is calculated →

CONTEXT

131,072

tokens

What it is good at

Open weights
128K context
Wide hosted availability

Typical use cases

Self-hosted chat
Fine-tune base
Cost benchmarking

Benchmarks

vs. best public score

Scores inherited from Llama 3.1 70B — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model, so the underlying benchmark scores are identical.

MMLU83%

Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.

GPQA Diamond47%

Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".

MATH68%

High-school competition math problems.

HumanEval80%

Python function synthesis from docstrings.

LMArena Elo1248 Elo

Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.

Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Llama 3.1 70B Instruct cost?

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct costs $0.400 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.400 per million tokens.

What is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's context window?

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct supports up to 131,072 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct best for?

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is well suited to Open weights, 128K context and Wide hosted availability.

Who makes Llama 3.1 70B Instruct?

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is developed and served by Meta. It was released in Jul 2024.

Terms used on this page

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Token Input tokens Output tokens Price per million tokens Context window Prompt caching Batch API Blended cost