Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

meta-llama · Released Dec 6, 2024
Intelligence #345 / 756
32.2 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #244 / 779
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Output Price #273 / 779
$0.320 per 1M tokens
Context #410 / 779
131,072 tokens

Analysis Summary

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is Meta's open-weight general model, offering a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling at very low listed pricing. Its text-only profile suits structured generation, coding assistance, document transformation, and high-volume content operations where teams value deployment flexibility and predictable token economics.

For an agency, it is a useful candidate for SEO outlines, metadata, content variants, internal assistants, and routine developer tasks. The supplied record has no benchmark results, so its reasoning, instruction-following, and coding quality should be validated rather than inferred from model size or ecosystem familiarity. It also lacks vision and file-specific input in the listed modality.

Test it against brand-voice, structured-output, and code-review tasks. It is attractive for volume workloads, but benchmarked alternatives may be safer for demanding client deliverables.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a low-cost open-weight workhorse with a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling, though this record supplies no benchmark data for quality validation.

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DFO Verdict

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a low-cost open-weight workhorse with a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling, though this record supplies no benchmark data for quality validation.

#345 of 756 overall

How Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct compares

Its 131K-token context window is larger than 47% 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 #345
Price: cheaper than 69% of models #244
Context: larger than 47% of models #410
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.10 in $0.32 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 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.

Intelligence0Technical0Value7.8Content6.5
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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