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Llama 3.1 8B

by Meta · 8B parameters

Current open weights open weights cheap tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.050

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.080

per 1M tokens

Blended

$0.058

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Source: official Meta pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-15

Price receipt

We read Meta's own pricing page on and found Llama 3.1 8B listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 5268b840bd.

Overview

Small, fast open-weights model. Cheapest hosted price via Groq: $0.05/$0.08 per 1M tokens.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 3/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Avg benchmark score34%
Perf per $/Mtok591.3
GPQA Diamond
30%
SWE-Bench Verified
12%
Humanity's Last Exam
5%
ARC-AGI 2
6%
AIME 2025
20%
MMMLU
65%
BFCL
48%
HumanEval
72%
MATH 500
48%
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #82 of 84 benchmarked models by average score
  • Ranks #169 of 181 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 9 independent measurements
  • Ranks #39 of 181 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
  • Strongest at HumanEval — 72%, #42 of 49

1800 tokens/sec output 0.32s latency to first token (TTFT)

Source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard (Jun 2026), Kaggle dataset · updated · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Meta
Context window
128K tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
8B
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
open-weightsfast

Availability verified: listed on Meta's own page