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Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B

AI model by Meta. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.

Pricing (per 1M tokens)

Input$0.66
Output$0.72
Blended (3:1)$0.68

Source: Artificial Analysis

Performance

Output Speed84 tok/s
Time to First Token1610ms

Median values from Artificial Analysis

Editorial Analysis

Profile. Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B is a budget-tier option from Meta at $0.72/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on Coding Index (11.9) and Intelligence Index (9.3) — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.

Latency. On latency, Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B reports 84 tok/s output speed and 1610ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is on the slower end; for real-time chat consider pairing with a streaming front-end or routing latency-sensitive requests to a faster model.

Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B costs $0.73 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.

Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-08-24.

Compare with similar models

ModelInputOutputSpeed
Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BCurrent
$0.66$0.7284 tok/s
Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B
$0.70$0.7034 tok/s
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
$0.18$0.70107 tok/s
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
$0.45$0.70
Celeris-1
$0.20$0.701484 tok/s
Qwen3 8B (Non-reasoning)
$0.18$0.7039 tok/s

Example Costs

Single Request
$0.0010
1.0K in / 500 out
1K Requests/day
$1.02
1.0M in / 500.0K out
10K Requests/day
$10.20
10.0M in / 5.0M out