Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API price

API price

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API price

By Meta. $0.02 per million input tokens, $0.04 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. Collected November 12, 2026.

meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instructOpen weights on Hugging Face

Input /M tokens: $0.02
Output /M tokens: $0.04
Context (tokens): 131,072
Parameters: 8B
Released: July 23, 2024
Tracked since: August 22, 2026

Last 90 days

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Price changes

November 9, 2026input $0.05 → $0.02, output $0.08 → $0.04

What the numbers say

Last price change on November 9, 2026: input $0.05 → $0.02, output $0.08 → $0.04 per million tokens.
Input costs less than 99% of the 443 paid models we track.

In our news

November 9, 2026Meta cuts OpenRouter prices for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

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