Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

meta-llama · Released Dec 6, 2024
DFO score #271 / 697
14.4 leaderboard score
Speed
233 tok/s · best OpenRouter provider
Input Price #243 / 697
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Output Price #270 / 697
$0.320 per 1M tokens
Context #343 / 697
131,072 tokens

Analysis Summary

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is a text-only Meta model with a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling. Its listed input and output prices are very low, which makes it an economical candidate for trials and volume-oriented workflows. No benchmark results are provided for this listing, so its reasoning, coding, and instruction-following performance cannot be verified from the available data.

The context length and integration features may suit routine content generation and bounded automation, particularly when the workflow includes human review. However, tool support does not demonstrate agentic reliability, and the absence of measurements means teams should validate consistency and factual accuracy before producing client-facing outputs. Self-hosting is not specified in the supplied information and should not be assumed.

Consider it for cost-sensitive pilots with clear quality checks. Promote it to a production role only after testing against real prompts and comparing its output quality with measured alternatives.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct combines a 131K context window and tool and function calling with very low listed prices; this listing has no benchmark results.

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DFO Verdict

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct combines a 131K context window and tool and function calling with very low listed prices; this listing has no benchmark results.

#271 of 697 overall Down 2 this week

How Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct compares

Its 131K-token context window is larger than 51% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 65% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 62% of models #268
Price: cheaper than 65% of models #243
Context: larger than 51% of models #343
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.10 in $0.32 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

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

Context window vs peers · tokens

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

Pricing

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

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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

$0.598/mo Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.0002 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$15.84/mo Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · best value $0.0053 per request

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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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