Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

meta-llama · Released Dec 6, 2024
Intelligence #329 / 715
33.0 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #220 / 717
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Output Price #250 / 717
$0.320 per 1M tokens
Context #358 / 717
131,072 tokens

Analysis Summary

Meta's Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a large text-generation model with a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling. Its listed pricing is exceptionally low compared with premium hosted models, making it attractive for high-volume content operations, classification, and workflow automation. The context size also supports sizeable briefs and document collections.

It is a good candidate for SEO drafts, content variations, internal knowledge tasks, and tool-connected applications where cost control is central. The absence of benchmark data for this listing limits confidence about reasoning depth, coding performance, and instruction-following consistency. Teams should test factuality, tone control, and structured output on their own workloads before using it for unsupervised client-facing copy. It is best positioned as a volume or self-managed workflow option rather than a proven flagship.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct combines a 131K context window with tool use and function calling at very low listed pricing, but this listing has no benchmark data to verify production-level reasoning.

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DFO Verdict

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct combines a 131K context window with tool use and function calling at very low listed pricing, but this listing has no benchmark data to verify production-level reasoning.

#329 of 715 overall Down 9 this week

How Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct compares

Its 131K-token context window is larger than 50% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 69% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 54% of models #329
Price: cheaper than 69% of models #220
Context: larger than 50% of models #358
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.10 in $0.32 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct 131K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

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Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.10 $0.000100
Output $0.32 $0.000320

What would Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out). The Llama 3.3 instruction tuned text only model..

Frequently asked questions about Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

How much does Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct cost?

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).

What can Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct do?

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is developed by Meta and was released on December 6, 2024.

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