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Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct pricing

Cheapest host: DeepInfra · checked Oct 26, 2026
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$0.30 / $0.40per 1M tokens in / out

Price sheetper 1M tokens

Input$0.30DeepInfra
Output$0.40
Context8Ktokens

Where to buy1 provider · per 1M tokens

ProviderInputOutputContext
DeepInfra$0.30$0.40—

In Meta's line-upper 1M in / out

Llama Guard 4 12B$0.18 / $0.18−45%
Llama 3.1 8B$0.22 / $0.22−32%
Llama 4 Maverick$0.19 / $0.65−7%
Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct$0.30 / $0.40this model
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct$0.34 / $0.34+6%
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct FP8$0.20 / $0.80+8%
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct$0.35 / $0.40+12%
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Pricing questions

How much does Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct cost?›

$0.30 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens.

Is Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct free to use?›

There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.

What is a cheaper alternative to Meta Llama 3 70B Instruct?›

GPT-6 Luna at max effort costs -38% per task with a score ×2.2 on GPQA Diamond · Epoch.