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Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite

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Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite is Meta's language model. A lightweight, instruction-tuned variant of Llama 3 8B optimized for efficient inference with reduced resource requirements.
Specifications
Canonical IDmeta-llama-3-8b-instruct-lite
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorMetaMeta
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B

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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Hugging Face
together_ai:meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Lite
$0.14$0.14

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite, 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
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hrus-east4
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hrus-east-1
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hrus-east4
7 more instances can run Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.200Deprecated
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct131K$0.015$0.020Deprecated
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct128K$0.027$0.080Deprecated
Llama 3.2 11B128K$0.160$0.160Available
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Deprecated
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct200K$0.020$0.030Deprecated
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct131K$0.120$0.300Available
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 Instruct Lite————Current

Model IDs

meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-lite