Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: price, context, what it takes
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct from Meta Llama, as OpenRouter's public list names it: meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct. Read 2026-11-06.
Prices are OpenRouter's, in US dollars. For most models that is the vendor's own list price; a vendor selling direct can differ.
- Input, per 1M tokens$0.0500
- Output, per 1M tokens$0.0800
- Cached input, per 1M tokens$0.0250
- Context window131,072 tokens
- Longest answer117,964 tokens
- Takestext
- Givestext
- AcceptsJSON schema, tools
- Released2024-07-23
- In the list since2026-10-28
- 2026-10-28 - 2026-11-06: input $0.0500, output $0.0800
- 2026-10-28 - 2026-10-28: input $0.0200, output $0.0400
| Model | Input, 1M | Output, 1M | Context | Accepts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | $0.720 | $0.720 | 131K | |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | $0.0270 | $0.201 | 60K | |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | $0.0509 | $0.335 | 131K | JSON schema |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | $0.590 | $0.790 | 131K | JSON schema · tools |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.350 | $1.00 | 524K | JSON schema · tools |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.100 | $0.300 | 1.31M | JSON schema · tools |
| Llama Guard 4 12B | $0.180 | $0.180 | 164K |
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