Llama 3 8B
Llama 3 8B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
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
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-03
- 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 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
The Llama 3 8B model, released on April 18, 2024, is Meta's latest large language model featuring 8 billion parameters. It's an auto-regressive transformer optimized for text generation and dialogue applications, particularly suited for assistant-like interactions. Trained on over 15 trillion tokens from diverse public sources, it incorporates advanced techniques like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). This model is designed to outperform many existing open-source chat models on industry benchmarks, emphasizing helpfulness and safety in its outputs. It's available for commercial and research use in English through the Hugging Face platform .
Llama 3 8B is an open-weight model in the Llama 3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI and Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama 3 8B yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.050 | $0.250 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Llama 3 8B?
Llama 3 8B has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does Llama 3 8B cost?
Llama 3 8B pricing ranges from $0.05/1M to $0.2/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Llama 3 8B released?
Llama 3 8B was released on 2024-04-18.
Which providers offer Llama 3 8B?
Llama 3 8B is available from 2 providers: Fireworks AI, Replicate API.
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI