Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Llama 3 70B Instruct is Meta's open-weight 70B model from April 2024, available at low cost through third-party inference providers. Its reasoning benchmarks are modest by current standards, and the 8K context window is a significant practical constraint for document-heavy business tasks.
For businesses, it suits lightweight general-purpose text generation, classification, and summarisation where context length is not a limiting factor. The near-zero agentic index means it is not suitable for tool-use pipelines or autonomous agent workflows. No vision or function calling support further limits its versatility.
Pricing is competitive at $0.51 per million input tokens, but the Llama 3.1 70B released shortly after offers a much larger context window and better overall capability at a similar price point, making this version largely redundant for new deployments.
Assessed June 17, 2026
Editorial notes
Llama 3 70B Instruct from Meta offers reasonable general reasoning at low cost, but its 8K context window and limited agentic capability restrict its usefulness for complex business workflows.
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Performance Profile
How Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct compares
Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct ranks #337 of 380 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #267 of 317 for coding, #290 of 292 for agentic tasks. Its 8K-token context window is larger than 25% of the models we list. At $0.51 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 33% of comparable models.
About Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct
Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 70B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong..
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | llama3 |
Performance Indices
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct
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| Provider | meta-llama |
| Model Family | Llama 3 |
| Release Date | April 18, 2024 |
| Context Length | 8,192 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.51 | $0.000510 |
| Output | $0.74 | $0.000740 |
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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct
How much does Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct cost?
Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct costs $0.51 per million input tokens and $0.74 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct?
Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct has a context window of 8,192 tokens (8K).
Is Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct ranks #267 of 317 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct?
Meta: Llama 3 70B Instruct is developed by Meta and was released on April 18, 2024.
