Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing.

Prices checked

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.05 in and $0.08 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price is $0.02 at Helicone, checked .

OpenRouter's own price

OpenRouter

$0.06/M tokens

$0.05 in · $0.08 out

93% below the typical price of the 392 text models we track.

Cheapest price

Helicone

$0.02/M tokens

$0.02 in · $0.03 out

61% less than OpenRouter, and the provider says why.

tool callingstructured outputopen weights131k contextreleased 23 Jul 2024

Every provider selling Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

  1. 1

    Helicone

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.03 out · 128k context here

    $0.02/M tokens
  2. 2

    NanoGPT

    Lower precision (fp8)

    $0.02 in · $0.03 out · 128k context here

    $0.02/M tokens
  3. 3

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  4. 4

    NanoGPT

    Resells

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  5. 5

    DeepInfra

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  6. 6

    DeepInfra

    Lower precision (fp8)

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  7. 7

    Eden AI

    Resells

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  8. 8

    Inference

    Runs it themselves

    $0.03 in · $0.03 out · 16k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  9. 9

    $0.02 in · $0.04 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  10. 10

    Helicone

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out · 16k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  11. 11

    Abacus

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out · 128k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  12. 12

    Novita

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out · 16k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  13. 13

    Novita

    Lower precision (fp8)

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out · 16k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  14. 14

    Requesty

    Resells

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  15. 15

    Jiekou

    Resells

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out · 16k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  16. 16

    Eden AI

    Lower precision (fp8)

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  17. 17

    $0.02 in · $0.05 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  18. 18

    Nebius Token Factory

    Runs it themselves

    $0.02 in · $0.06 out · 128k context here

    $0.03/M tokens
  19. 19

    Nscale

    Runs it themselves

    $0.03 in · $0.03 out

    $0.03/M tokens
  20. 20

    DeepInfra

    Runs it themselves

    $0.03 in · $0.05 out

    $0.04/M tokens
  21. 21

    Requesty

    Same as maker

    $0.05 in · $0.05 out · 16k context here

    $0.05/M tokens
  22. 22

    OpenRouter

    Same as maker

    $0.05 in · $0.08 out

    $0.06/M tokens
  23. 23

    Groq

    Same as maker

    $0.05 in · $0.08 out

    $0.06/M tokens
  24. 24

    Nous Portal

    Same as maker

    $0.05 in · $0.08 out

    $0.06/M tokens
  25. 25

    $0.06 in · $0.06 out

    $0.06/M tokens

Not ranked

Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, from a catalog we could not read reliably, or a free tier, which is a limit rather than a price. Why

  1. Featherless

    Not ranked

    $0.20 in · $0.32 out · 33k context here

    $0.23/M tokens
  2. Featherless

    Not ranked

    $0.20 in · $0.32 out · 33k context here

    $0.23/M tokens

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What it costs for your work
pages a month
$0.03

A month at OpenRouter's own price

$0.01

A month at Helicone, the cheapest

$0.02

What you save

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

How we count

Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below OpenRouter's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why. Meta trained Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.

Runs it themselves
The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
Lower precision
The open weights, served at a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
Resells
The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
Same as maker
Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
Costs more
Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
Not ranked
Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.

Similar models

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Frequently asked

Who sells Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cheapest?
Helicone, at $0.02 in and $0.03 out per million tokens, checked 31 Oct 2026. The provider runs the open weights on hardware of its own, so the price is its own rather than a resale.
Is Llama 3.1 8B Instruct open weights?
Yes. Meta publishes the weights, so anyone may host Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, which is why 29 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
How much context does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct hold?
131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
How does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct compare with the rest of the market?
At $0.06 per million tokens, OpenRouter's own price is 93% below the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.

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