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Llama 3 Instruct 70B Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

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Llama 3 Instruct 70B is below average in intelligence and particularly expensive when comparing to other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 8k tokens context window with knowledge up to December 2023.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B scores 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it below average among comparable models (median: 7).

Pricing for Llama 3 Instruct 70B is $0.65 per 1M input tokens (expensive, median: $0.00) and $2.75 per 1M output tokens (expensive, median: $0.00).

Reasoning	No This page shows the non-reasoning version of this model. A reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality	Supports: text
Output modality	Supports: text
Knowledge cutoff	Dec 1, 2023
Context window	8k ~12 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font
Total parameters	70B
License	META LLAMA 3 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT
Model weights	Hugging Face

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:

Tiny: ≤4B parameters
Small: 4B–40B parameters
Medium: 40B–150B parameters
Large: >150B parameters

Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

<$0.15 per 1M tokens
$0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
>$1 per 1M tokens

Highlights

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if commercial use is limited by conditions, and as 'Non-commercial' if the license prohibits commercial use.

Benchmarks

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better

AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated

Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

GDPval-AA v2.1Updated

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

AutomationBench-AAUpdated

Agentic SaaS workflows

Terminal-Bench 4.0New

Agentic coding & terminal use

SciCode

Coding

Humanity's Last Exam

Reasoning & knowledge

GDP.pdfNew

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

CritPtUnder review

Physics reasoning

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate

1 - hallucination rate

AA-LCR v1.1

Long context reasoning

Harvey LAB-AA

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA

Agentic business operations

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1New

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

AA-AnalystAgent

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

𝜏³-Banking

Agentic tool use

ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

MLCR-AA

Medical long context reasoning

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

Openness Index

Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

Openness Index assesses model openness on a 0 to 100 normalized scale (higher is more open)

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

The cost to run the evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, calculated using the model's input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices and the number of tokens used across evaluations (excluding repeats).

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)

Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)

Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

Comparison between total model parameters and parameters active during inference (billions)

The total number of trainable weights and biases in the model, expressed in billions. These parameters are learned during training and determine the model's ability to process and generate responses.

The number of parameters actually executed during each inference forward pass, expressed in billions. For Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, a routing mechanism selects a subset of experts per token, resulting in fewer active than total parameters. Dense models use all parameters, so active equals total.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Llama 3 Instruct 70B

Llama 3 Instruct 70B was released on April 18, 2024.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B was created by Meta.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B scores 5 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it below average among other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 7).

Llama 3 Instruct 70B costs $0.65 per 1M input tokens (somewhat higher than average, median: $0.46) and $2.75 per 1M output tokens (somewhat higher than average, median: $0.81), based on the median across providers serving the model.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B costs $0.65 per 1M input tokens and $2.75 per 1M output tokens (based on the median across providers serving the model). For a blended rate (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio), this is $0.86 per 1M tokens. Pricing may vary by provider. Compare provider pricing

No, Llama 3 Instruct 70B is not a reasoning model. It provides direct responses without extended chain-of-thought reasoning.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B supports text input.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B supports text output.

No, Llama 3 Instruct 70B does not support image input. It can only process text.

No, Llama 3 Instruct 70B is not multimodal. It only supports text input.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B has a context window of 8.2k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

Yes, Llama 3 Instruct 70B is open weights. The model weights are publicly available and can be downloaded for self-hosting.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B has 70 billion parameters.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B is released under the META LLAMA 3 COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT license. Commercial use is allowed with restrictions. View license

Llama 3 Instruct 70B achieves a score of 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.

Llama 3 Instruct 70B has a knowledge cutoff of December 2023. The model's training data includes information up to this date.

Yes, Llama 3 Instruct 70B is available via API through 3 providers. Compare API providers

Llama 3 Instruct 70B is available through 3 API providers. Compare providers

Llama 3 Instruct 70B Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Model summary

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Comparison Summary

Technical specifications

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Open Weights

Benchmarks

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence Evaluation Relevance

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index

Openness Index

Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

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Context Window for RAG

Context Window

Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)

Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

Total Parameters

Active Parameters at Inference Time

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