Llama 3 Instruct 8B: Quality, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of Meta's Llama 3 Instruct 8B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
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Comparison Summary
Quality:
Llama 3 8B is of lower quality compared to average, with a MMLU score of 0.684 and a Quality Index across evaluations of 46.
Price:Llama 3 8B is cheaper compared to average with a price of $0.15 per 1M Tokens (blended 3:1).
Llama 3 8B Input token price: $0.14, Output token price: $0.20 per 1M Tokens.
Speed:Llama 3 8B Input token price: $0.14, Output token price: $0.20 per 1M Tokens.
Llama 3 8B is faster compared to average, with a output speed of 122.1 tokens per second.
Latency:Llama 3 8B has a lower latency compared to average, taking 0.32s to receive the first token (TTFT).
Context Window:Llama 3 8B has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 8.2k tokens.
Highlights
Quality
Artificial Analysis Quality Index; Higher is better
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
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Prompt Length:
Note: Long prompts not supported as a context window of at least 10k tokens is required
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