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 with conditions
- Training
- finetuned
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 |
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Capabilities
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Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
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Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI