Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API Pricing

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing by provider

14 listings across 13 providers. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct features

• Function calling
• Parallel tool calls
• Structured output
• Image input

Use Llama 3.1 8B Instruct with LiteLLM

Call Llama 3.1 8B Instruct through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="vertex_ai/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-maas",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: llama-3.1-8b-instruct
    litellm_params:
      model: vertex_ai/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct-maas
      vertex_project: os.environ/VERTEX_PROJECT
      vertex_location: os.environ/VERTEX_LOCATION

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct FAQ

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