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Using Llama 3 70B Instruct on Together AI

Implementation guide · Llama 3 · AI at Meta

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Together AI and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Together AI SDK or REST API to call llama3-70b-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.88/1M input, $0.88/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install together
API key
TOGETHER_API_KEY
Model ID
llama3-70b-instruct

Together uses "organization/model-name" format, e.g. "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct" or "Qwen/QwQ-32B". See the Together model catalog for the exact ID.

from together import Together

client = Together()  # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llama3-70b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

About Together AI

Platform for running open-source and proprietary LLMs

Together AI is a platform for running open-source and proprietary LLMs with fast serverless and dedicated endpoints at competitive inference pricing.

Pricing on Together AI

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.88
Output tokens$0.88

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

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. For more details, visit the model's Hugging Face page [1].

Model Specs

Released2024-04-18
Parameters70B
Context8K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-12

Provider

Together AI
Together AI

San Francisco, California, United States