Llama 3 8B Chat is Meta's language model, starting at $0.2 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. A compact conversational language model tuned for chat-style interactions, balancing efficiency with general-purpose language understanding.
Specifications
Canonical IDmeta-llama-3-8b-chat
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorMetaMeta
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Together AI
together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-3-8b-chat-hf
$0.2$0.2

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Llama 3 8B Chat, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 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
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
Standard_NV16as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2532 GB$0.932/hr
g6.2xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.978/hr
7 more instances can run Llama 3 8B Chat
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct131K$0.100$0.200Deprecated
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct131K$0.015$0.020Deprecated
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct131K$0.020$0.020Deprecated
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Deprecated
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct200K$0.020$0.030Deprecated
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct131K$0.100$0.100Deprecated
Llama 3.1 70B128K$0.360$0.360Available
Llama 3.1 8B131K$0.030$0.050Available
Llama 3 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Deprecated
Llama 3 8B Instruct32K$0.030$0.040Deprecated
Llama 3 8B Chat$0.200$0.200Current

Model IDs

meta-llama-3-8b-chat
together_ai/meta-llama/Llama-3-8b-chat-hf