Llama 3.1 70B Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct at $0.460 in and $0.460 out and Llama 4 Maverick at $0.230 in and $0.920 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Meta

0.27¢

for a client proposal

$0.460 in · $0.460 out / 1M

131K context · released July 2024

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Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

0.19¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $0.920 out / 1M

1.05M context · released April 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.46¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Llama 4 Maverick at $0.230 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct at $0.460 per million tokens.
Largest context: Llama 4 Maverick 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

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

0.11¢

Llama 4 Maverick

0.09¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

0.27¢

Llama 4 Maverick

0.19¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Llama 4 Maverick

3.9¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

1.7¢

Llama 4 Maverick

0.9¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

Llama 4 Maverick

$0.06

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

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80% Input20% Output

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

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Pricing

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Input / 1M tokens

$0.460

$0.230

Output / 1M tokens

$0.460

$0.920

Specs

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Provider

Meta

Released

July 2024

April 2025

Context window

131K

1.05M

Max output

16K

Input

Text

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2023-12-31

2024-08-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Meta

0.11¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

0.09¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.21¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,415 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Llama 4 Maverick has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.19¢.

For images or files, Llama 4 Maverick can read them directly; Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is text-only.

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

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Llama 4 Maverick at 0.19¢; Llama 3.1 70B Instruct at 0.27¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Llama 4 Maverick — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Llama 3.1 70B Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.46¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.46¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.