Model

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Name: Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Brand: meta

Compact open Llama model for lightweight chat, drafting, and self-hosting

17 providers · 18 listingsreleased Jul 23, 2024knowledge cutoff 2023-12open weights

$0.02

lowest input /M · NovitaAI

$0.025

lowest output /M · Inference

131K

context window

131K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

15 of 17 providers publish a price for Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. The cheapest full-context option is Kilo Gateway at $0.02/$0.04 per M. Listed prices span 9.0× for identical weights.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
NovitaAI meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.02	$0.05	—	—	16K	no reasoningno toolsno structuredno vision	Jul 24, 2024
Helicone llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.02	$0.05	—	—	16K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Kilo Gateway meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.02	$0.04	—	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Abacus meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	$0.02	$0.05	—	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Inference meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.025	$0.025	—	—	16K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jan 1, 2025
OpenRouter meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.05	$0.08	$0.025	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
NanoGPT meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.054	$0.085	$0.027	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Hugging Face meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	$0.06	$0.06	—	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Neon meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct	$0.15	$0.45	—	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Cortecs llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.167	$0.167	—	—	128K	reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Pioneer meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	$0.2	$0.2	$0.2	$0.2	128K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Vercel AI Gateway meta/llama-3.1-8b	$0.22	$0.22	—	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Weights & Biases meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	$0.22	$0.22	$0.22	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Amazon Bedrockvariant meta.llama3-1-8b-instruct-v1:0	$0.22	$0.22	—	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Amazon Bedrockvariant us.meta.llama3-1-8b-instruct-v1:0	$0.22	$0.22	—	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Merge Gateway meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	$0.22	$0.22	—	—	128K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024
Nvidia meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	—	—	—	—	16K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jan 1, 2025
Atomic Chat Meta-Llama-3_1-8B-Instruct-GGUF	—	—	—	—	131K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jul 23, 2024

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.02unchanged
Best output /M: $0.04unchanged
Provider coverage: 18; 17 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

capabilityvia nano-gpt · Sep 13, 2026
- tool_call: false → true
capabilityvia amazon-bedrock · Sep 13, 2026
- description: Open Llama instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and coding → Compact open Llama model for lightweight chat, drafting, and self-hosting
new modelvia amazon-bedrock · Sep 10, 2026
contextvia wandb · Aug 27, 2026
- context: 128K → 131K tokens
- output: 128K → 131K tokens
contextvia kilo · Aug 25, 2026
- output: 131K → 118K tokens
contextvia openrouter · Aug 25, 2026
- output: 131K → 118K tokens

Weights

Conditionalllama3.1Access request8B params

Commercial use allowed, but the lab attaches conditions — read them before shipping. Hugging Face requires you to accept terms, and the lab may approve access manually.

Derived from meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B.

licence and gating from the Hugging Face model card ↗ — the card is authoritative, this is a summary

Hugging Face

Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.