Llama 3 70B
Llama 3 70B is worth evaluating for coding and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding and classification
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Llama 3
- Released
- 2024-04-18
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 70B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 3 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API
About
The Llama 3 70B model is a state-of-the-art large language model with 70 billion parameters, released by Meta on April 18, 2024. It's based on an auto-regressive transformer architecture and has been optimized for dialogue applications using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). The model supports an 8,000-token context length and has been trained on over 15 trillion tokens from public online sources. It excels in tasks such as conversational AI, text generation, and natural language understanding, outperforming many existing open-source chat models on industry benchmarks.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ C1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ D2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $0.650 | $2.75 | Serverless |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(7)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 44.1 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HellaSwag | 92.4 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HumanEval | 72.6 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 80.5 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| Grade School Math 8K | 93.0 | —Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 83.2 | —Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | 94.8 | —Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
Migration checks
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