Llama 3 8B Instruct

Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong...

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Overview

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Score

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10 benchmarks

Avg Latency

8.8s

14 requests

Pricing

$0.04 in / $0.04 out

per 1M tokens

Context

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Quickstart

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Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Other Models from Meta

Compare performance with other models from the same creator

Model	Latency	Cost/1M	Score
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	30.8s	$0.11	42%
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	20.5s	$0.21	41%
Llama 4 Maverick	4.7s	$0.38	38%
Llama 4 Scout	6.6s	$0.19	38%
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	31.0s	$0.19	0%
Llama Guard 3 8B	6.6s	$0.26	—
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	14.5s	$0.40	—
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct	—	$0.38	—
Llama Guard 4 12B	513ms	$0.18	—
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	23.7s	$0.03	—
Llama 3 70B Instruct	20.1s	$0.63	—
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct	44.8s	$0.24	—
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct	—	Free	—
Llama 3.1 405B (base)	39.5s	$4.00	—
LlamaGuard 2 8B	1.6s	$0.20	—