Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.020 input and $0.050 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use and function calling.
Editorial notes
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct from Meta offers tool use, function calling, a 131K context, and an intelligence index of 11.8 at just $0.02/$0.05 per million tokens; coding and agentic scores are modest, but the price-to-capability ratio is excellent for structured content tasks.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct compares
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ranks #286 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #268 of 307 for coding, #257 of 282 for agentic tasks. Its 131K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. At $0.02 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 78% of comparable models.
About Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version is fast and efficient. It has demonstrated strong performance compared to..
Capabilities
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | llama3 |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct
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| Provider | meta-llama |
| Model Family | Llama 3 |
| Release Date | July 23, 2024 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 16,384 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.02 | $0.000020 |
| Output | $0.05 | $0.000050 |
Live Performance
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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
How much does Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost?
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.02 per million input tokens and $0.05 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
Is Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ranks #268 of 307 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct do?
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is developed by Meta and was released on July 23, 2024.
