LLM Reference

Llama 3 8B

Released
2024-04-18
Last refreshed
2026-04-15
Status
Researched 163d ago
Open WeightsCommercial use with conditions

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
Specifications
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
Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

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 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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

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Migration checks

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