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Why use Llama 3 70B Instruct on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Llama 3 70B Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.51/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Llama 3 70B Instruct across 18 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instructmeta-llama/llama-3-70b-instructRequest example
meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct", not the LLMReference slug "llama3-70b-instruct".
Compare Llama 3 70B Instruct Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $1.20 | $3.60 |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Microsoft Foundry | $3.78 | $11.34 |
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
| DeepInfra | $0.45 | $0.65 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.51 |
| Output tokens | $0.74 |
Capabilities
About Llama 3 70B Instruct
The Llama 3 70B Instruct model is a large language model with 70 billion parameters, released by Meta on April 18, 2024. It's an instruction-tuned variant optimized for conversational applications, utilizing an advanced auto-regressive transformer architecture. The model excels in following instructions and engaging in dialogue, having been trained on over 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 knowledge cutoff. It demonstrates superior performance on industry benchmarks, scoring 82.0 on the MMLU (5-shot) test. The model incorporates extensive safety measures and optimizations, including RLHF, to enhance helpfulness and reduce harmful content generation.