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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

GA

Open-weight, text-only, 8B dense, 128k context. License: Llama 3.1 Community License. Hosted price = OpenRouter slug 'meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct' $0.02 in / $0.03 out per 1M (page accessed 2026-06-28; 131k ctx). Together AI reports ~$0.18 per 1M flat. Free tier also available. Langs: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Thai.

Provider
Meta
Status
GA
Input price
$0.02 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.03 / 1M tokens
Cached input
—
Blended price
$0.022 / 1M tokens
Context window
128,000 tokens (128K)
Max output
—
Modality
text
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Released
23 Jul 2024
API string
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Source: Meta official documentation ↗

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