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Llama 3.3 70B

Llama 3.3 70B — Spezifikationen

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Entwickler Meta
Typ LLM (dicht)
Modality Text → Text
Parameter 70B
Kontextfenster 128 K
Lizenz Llama 3.3 Community (offen)
Offene Gewichte Ja
Veröffentlicht 2024
Eingabepreis $0.10 /1M
Ausgabepreis $0.32 /1M
API-Anbieter Together, DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama

Lokal ausführen

VRAM (4-Bit) ~40 GB
Mindest-GPU 2× RTX 4090 / 1× 48 GB

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What is Llama 3.3 70B?

Llama 3.3 70B is Meta’s efficient dense 70B — close to 405B-class quality at a fraction of
the size, with a 128K context. It needs about 40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit, so two RTX 4090s or a
single 48 GB card, and it is among the most-deployed open models for self-hosting.

Dense is the operative word. Nearly every large open model released since is a
mixture-of-experts, which lowers inference compute but keeps the full parameter count
resident in memory — DeepSeek V4-Pro activates 49B parameters but still needs roughly 800 GB
of VRAM to hold. A dense 70B has no such gap: what you load is what you use, so 40 GB is the
whole story. For teams sizing hardware, that predictability is worth a lot, and it is why
3.3 70B remains the default for on-premises deployments even as newer architectures post
better benchmark numbers. At $0.10 in / $0.32 out per million tokens the API is cheap enough
that self-hosting only makes sense for data-residency reasons or at sustained high
Volumen.

Llama 3.3 70B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Eingabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$0.100
Ausgabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$0.320
Verhältnis Output/Input3.2×
Gemischt (4:1 Input:Output)$0.144 pro 1 Mio. Tokens

What Llama 3.3 70B costs per month

Tatsächliche monatliche Ausgaben bei einem 4:1-Input-zu-Output-Mix – dem Verhältnis, das typische Chat- oder RAG-Arbeitslasten tatsächlich erzeugen.

WorkloadTokens/MonatKosten pro Monat
Nebenprojekt 1 Mio. Eingabe / 0,25 Mio. Ausgabe $0.18
Kleines Team 20 Mio. Eingabe / 5 Mio. Ausgabe $3.60
Produktion 200 Mio. Eingabe / 50 Mio. Ausgabe $36

Stellen Sie Ihre eigenen Berechnungen im KI-API-Kostenrechner.

Cheaper alternatives to Llama 3.3 70B

ModellGewichteter Preis pro Million US-DollarSie sparen
Mistral 7B offenere $0.0220 85% cheaper
Llama 3.1 8B offenere $0.0220 85% cheaper
Mistral NeMo 12B offenere $0.0240 83% cheaper

Selbst hosten oder die API nutzen?

Llama 3.3 70B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (2× RTX 4090 / 1× 48GB). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the Selbsthosting vs. API-Rechner berechnet den Break-even-Punkt für Ihr Token-Volumen.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

How much does Llama 3.3 70B cost per 1M tokens?

Llama 3.3 70B costs $0.100 per 1M input tokens and $0.320 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.144 per 1M tokens.

How much does Llama 3.3 70B cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $3.60 on Llama 3.3 70B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.18.

What is a cheaper alternative to Llama 3.3 70B?

Mistral 7B is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.0220 per 1M blended — about 85% less than Llama 3.3 70B. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.

Can I run Llama 3.3 70B locally?

Yes. Llama 3.3 70B is open-weight and needs about ~40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (2× RTX 4090 / 1× 48GB).

Why does Llama 3.3 70B charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. Llama 3.3 70B charges 3.2× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

Die Preise entsprechen den offiziell veröffentlichten Listenpreisen für die primäre API des jeweiligen Modells und werden regelmäßig aktualisiert, sobald Anbieter diese ändern. Volumen-, Batch- und Cached-Input-Rabatte sind nicht enthalten. Vergleichen Sie alle Modelle nebeneinander im Datenbank für KI-Modelle oder das LLM-Leaderboard.

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