Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instant

by MetaChatunverified match

Compact Llama instruction model for fast chat and local deployment

Context
131K tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Released
2024-07-01
Weights
Closed

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Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2024-07-01
Weights
Closed
Input
Text
Output
Text
Context window
131,072 max across endpoints
Max output
131,072
Providers
2 + 1 gateway, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.05–$0.20 in · $0.08–$0.50 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
Last updated
2024-07-23
Knowledge cutoff
2024-07

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel toolsunknown
  • Structured outputunknown
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt cachingunknown
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messagesunknown
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streaming
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.05 in / $0.08 out per 1M tokens at Groq on every data refresh since then.

Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON

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