Llama 3.1 70B Instruct API Pricing
Meta · Budget · Llama 3.x · released 2024-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
- Input: $0.40 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.40 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 131K
- Arena ELO: 1293 (as of 2026-09-02)
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.000800 | $0.000800 | $80 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0011 | $0.0011 | $112 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.0045 | $0.0045 | $448 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0017 | $0.0017 | $172 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0020 | $0.0020 | $200 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.000840 | $0.000840 | $84 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0011 | $0.0011 | $108 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.0036 | $0.0036 | $360 |
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-11 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.72 | $0.72 |
Models comparable to Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- Gemma 2 27B (Google) — $0.65 in / $0.65 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1289
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — $0.10 in / $0.32 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1317
- GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1317
- Llama 4 Scout (Meta) — $0.10 in / $0.30 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1321
Common questions about Llama 3.1 70B Instruct pricing
- How much does Llama 3.1 70B Instruct cost?
- Llama 3.1 70B Instruct costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Llama 3.1 70B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Llama 3.1 70B Instruct cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct costs about $80 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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