Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Summary
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct is an open-weight language model from Meta, released on 23 Jul 2024. It accepts text and generates text, with a 131K-token context window and up to 16K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens (OpenRouter), across 2 providers we track.
Open Llama instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and coding
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Meta |
|---|---|
| Release date | 23 Jul 2024 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | llama3.1 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 70.6B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 131K (131,072 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 16K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Dec 2023 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | No [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Structured output | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct [Hugging Face] |
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct | $0.40 | $0.40 | – | 131K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Amazon Bedrock us.meta.llama3-1-70b-instruct-v1:0 | $0.72 | $0.72 | – | 128K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Amazon Bedrock meta.llama3-1-70b-instruct-v1:0 | $0.72 | $0.72 | – | 128K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct?
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K) and can generate up to 16,384 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct API cost?
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct is listed from $0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens (OpenRouter). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct open source?
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct under the llama3.1 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct released?
Meta released Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct on 23 Jul 2024, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct?
We track Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct on 2 providers: OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.
Sources
- https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml
- https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/us.meta.llama3-1-70b-instruct-v1:0.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/meta.llama3-1-70b-instruct-v1:0.toml