Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Compact open Llama model for lightweight chat, drafting, and self-hosting
- Strongest at
- Writing Better than 2% of the past year's models · one benchmark so far
- Price per 1M tokens
- $0.02 / $0.04 input / output · OpenRouter
- Context window
- 128K tokens in · 4.1K out
Capability profile
Where it lands among 91 models released in the past year. 50 is the average model.
Where these scores come from
Each capability combines the published benchmarks listed here, rescaled so 50 is the reference average and 15 points is one standard deviation. A hollow marker rests on a single benchmark.
- Writing EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3
- Science WeirdML v2
Price against capability
The shaded corner holds anything better and cheaper. Prices blend input and output 3 to 1.
Nothing from the past year scores higher on Writing for less.
Nothing from the past year scores higher on Science for less.
OpenRouter $0.02 / $0.04
The Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct line
5 releases in the Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct line.
A newer release is out: Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
Meta's past year
8 release days in the past year, about one every 46 days. The next is expected around Dec 15, 2026. Forecasts ↗
Specifications
Specifications and prices from Models.dev; availability and limits may differ by provider. Benchmarks from Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), LiveBench and the other sources named above.