Llama 3 70B Instruct is Meta's language model with a 131K context window and up to 8K output tokens, available from 8 providers, starting at $0.12 / 1M input and $0.3 / 1M output. Meta's 70B instruction-tuned LLM from the Llama 3 generation, widely used for enterprise conversational AI and complex instruction-following tasks.
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #485 |
| MMLU-Pro | #273 |
| GPQA | #447 |
| HLE | #407 |
| LiveCodeBench | #265 |
| AIME | #180 |
| IFBench | #290 |
| Time to First Token | #194 |
| SciCode | #413 |
| MATH-500 | #169 |
| LCR | #446 |
| TerminalBench Hard | #361 |
| TAU2 | #408 |
| Output TPS | #429 |
Capabilities
Input2/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Cache Read $ / 1M | Cache Write 5m $ / 1M | |
| $2.65 | $3.50 | N/A | N/A | |
| $1.00 | $1.00 | N/A | N/A | |
| $1.00 | $3.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | |
| $0.9 | $0.9 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.12 | $0.3 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.51 | $0.74 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.59 | $0.79 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.65 | $2.75 | N/A | N/A | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Llama 3 70B Instruct, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 168 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NP40s | 4× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) | 256 GB | $6.60/hr | |||
| g2-standard-96 | 8× nvidia-l4 | 192 GB | $7.98/hr | |||
| g7e.12xlarge | 2× RTX PRO Server 6000 | 192 GB | $8.29/hr | |||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 131K | $0.120 | $0.200 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 131K | $0.015 | $0.020 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | 131K | $0.020 | $0.020 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.2 11B | 128K | $0.160 | $0.160 | Available | |
| Llama 3.1 405B Instruct | 131K | $0.120 | $0.300 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 200K | $0.020 | $0.030 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | 131K | $0.100 | $0.100 | Deprecated | |
| Llama 3.1 70B | 128K | $0.360 | $0.360 | Available | |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 131K | $0.030 | $0.050 | Available | |
| Llama 3 70B Instruct | 131K | $0.120 | $0.300 | Current | |
| Llama 3 8B Instruct | 32K | $0.030 | $0.040 | Available |