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Together AI - Llama 3 8B Lite

llama-3-8b-lite

Researched 29d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

Open SourceAgentsClassificationJSON / Tool use

Together AI - Llama 3 8B Lite is worth evaluating for agents, classification, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Agents task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating agents, classification, and json / tool use
  • Workloads that can use a 8K context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads

Cheapest output

$0.100

Together AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Together AI$0.100$0.100
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Agents

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Meta Llama 3 8B variant optimized for fast inference on Together AI.

Together AI - Llama 3 8B Lite has a 8K-token context window.

Together AI - Llama 3 8B Lite input tokens at $0.1/1M, output at $0.1/1M.

Capabilities

Function CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyLlama 3
Released2025-07-15
Parameters8B
Context8K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2024-03
Specializationgeneral
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website

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