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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta · released July 2024

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a Meta model with a 131K token context window — about 190 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text.

$0.058

input / 1M tokens

$0.092

output / 1M tokens

131K

context — about 190 pages

0.04¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$0.058 per million tokens
Output
$0.092 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.029 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
Meta
Released
July 2024 (2024-07-23)
Context window
131K tokens — about 190 pages
Max output
131K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Answers directly
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12-31

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta

0.02¢

for this task

71% input · 29% output

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Questions, answered

How much does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost on Alyph?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.058 per million input tokens and $0.092 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.04¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Llama 3.1 8B Instruct's context window?

131K tokens — about 190 pages. Replies can be up to 131K tokens long.

Can Llama 3.1 8B Instruct read images and files?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct show its reasoning?

No — Llama 3.1 8B Instruct answers directly, without a visible thinking pass.

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