Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct vs Mistral Small 3

Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 in and $0 out, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at $0.058 in and $0.092 out, and Mistral Small 3 at $0.058 in and $0.092 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

At a glance

Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Largest context: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

0.02¢

Mistral Small 3

0.02¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

0.04¢

Mistral Small 3

0.04¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Mistral Small 3

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

0.21¢

Mistral Small 3

needs 35K ctx

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Free

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Mistral Small 3

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Mistral Small 3

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Mistral Small 3

Input / 1M tokens

$0.058

Output / 1M tokens

$0.092

Cached input / 1M

—

$0.029

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Specs

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Mistral Small 3

Provider

Google

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for this task

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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Clip Preview has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Clip Preview is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about free.

For images or files, Lyria 3 Clip Preview can read them directly; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct and Mistral Small 3 are text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Lyria 3 Clip Preview pricing →Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing →Mistral Small 3 pricing →Try other combinations →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — Lyria 3 Clip Preview, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, or Mistral Small 3?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Clip Preview at free; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at 0.04¢; Mistral Small 3 at 0.04¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Lyria 3 Clip Preview, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, and Mistral Small 3 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.07¢ for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.07¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.