Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Llama 3.1
- Released
- 2024-07-23
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 15 routes · Novita AI
About
The Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, released on July 23, 2024, is a multilingual large language model with 8 billion parameters, optimized for instruction-following tasks. It features an enhanced transformer architecture, supporting languages like English, German, French, and others. The model excels in dialogue applications, having been fine-tuned using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback. Trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens with a December 2023 data cutoff, it outperforms many existing open-source and closed chat models in various benchmarks. Ideal for commercial and research applications such as conversational agents and content generation, the model can be accessed on Hugging Face .
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is an open-source model in the Llama 3.1 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Cloudflare Workers AI, OctoAI API (Deprecated), Together AI, and 12 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.02 input and $0.05 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include BFCL 25.8 and MMLU PRO 44.3.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ A1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 15Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.020 | $0.050 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.020 | $0.050 | Serverless |
| GroqCloud | $0.050 | $0.080 | Serverless |
| Hyperbolic AI Inference | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
Benchmark scores(2)
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.