Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct API Pricing
Live token cost for Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct from Meta. Use the figures below for budgeting, then tune your exact request mix in the interactive calculator. Prices refresh every 24 hours from OpenRouter.
Capabilities
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct cost at scale
Estimated monthly cost across common production volumes. Assumes 30-day months and the request shapes shown.
| Tier | Requests / day | In / out tokens | $ / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 1,000 | 500 / 200 | $0.690 |
| Startup | 10,000 | 1,500 / 500 | $19.50 |
| Growth | 100,000 | 3,000 / 800 | $366.00 |
| Enterprise | 1,000,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $9,600.00 |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct cost?
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct costs $0.03 per 1M input tokens and $0.04 per 1M output tokens. A typical 1,500-token in / 500-token out request costs $0.00006.
Does Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct support cached input?
No. Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct does not currently expose cached-input pricing through Meta. Every input token is billed at the full rate.
What is the Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct context window?
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct supports a context window of 8,192 tokens (8K). Max output per response is 16,384 tokens.
What is Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct good for?
Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct is a good fit for open-source baseline, fine-tuning research, edge inference. For other use cases, run your specific input/output mix through the interactive calculator to compare against alternative models.