Llama 3.1 8B Instruct API Pricing
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.02 per 1M input tokens and $0.05 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.02 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.05 |
Verified 2026-11-12 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
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1M input + 1M output
$0.07
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.00325
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$0.30
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
Not listed
Novita AI does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.
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Input cost
$0.02
Output cost
$0.05
Total
$0.07
Price history
No list-price movement across 113 daily snapshots from 2026-07-22 to 2026-11-11.
When to use Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
Be careful with
- frontier reasoning or ambiguous tasks where failure is more expensive than token spend
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first