Llama 3 8B Instruct

Meta chattool_use

API ID: meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct

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Input Price
$0.03
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.04
/1M tokens

About Llama 3 8B Instruct

Llama 3 8B Instruct is a budget-friendly general-purpose model from Meta with standard context (8k), suitable for conversations, content creation, and general AI tasks.

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Price Ranking
#570 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
8k
Max Output
16k
Release Date
2024-04-18
Capabilities
chat tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.03
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$0.81
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Llama 3 8B Instruct API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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