# Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

> 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.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/llama-3-1-70b-instruct
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Meta
- **Release date:** 23 Jul 2024 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)
- **License:** llama3.1 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)
- **Parameters:** 70.6B (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)
- **Context window:** 131K (131,072 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Max output:** 16K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Knowledge cutoff:** Dec 2023 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Input:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Structured output:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/openrouter/models/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.toml)
- **Hugging Face:** meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.40 | $0.40 | – | 131K |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.72 | $0.72 | – | 128K |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.72 | $0.72 | – | 128K |

## FAQ

### 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.

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