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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is a Meta model released on 23 Jul 2024. Its API price is $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens. Its context window is 131.1K tokens. It ranks #292 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1293, read 1 Nov 2026). Source: ai.meta.com.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is Meta's Llama 3.1 70B instruction-tuned model, released on July 23, 2024 with open weights under the Llama 3.1 Community licence, so it can be self-hosted. It has a 131.1K-token context window. arena.ai lists pricing of $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, not confirmed as first-party. On LMArena's text leaderboard: 1293 Elo (rank 292).

Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 29, 2026LMArena: 1293 Elo (rank 292) · source · retrieved Nov 1, 2026
Pricing

$0.40 / $0.40 per million tokens

Context

131.1K tokens

LMArena Elo

1293

LMArena rank

#292

Full Specifications

$0.40 / $0.40 per million tokens
Identity
DeveloperMeta
ReleasedJul 2024
LicenceLlama 3.1 Community
Self-hostableYes
Cost
Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25$0.400 / 1M tokens
Input price$0.400 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.400 / 1M tokens
Capacity
Context window131.1K tokens
Measured quality
LMArena Elo1293 (checked Nov 2026)
LMArena rankRank 292
GPQA Diamond44
Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens3233