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Llama 3.3 70B

Llama 3.3 70B — Especificações

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

Desenvolvedor Meta
Tipo LLM (densa)
Modalidade Texto → Texto
Parâmetros 70B
Janela de contexto 128K
Licença Llama 3.3 Community (aberta)
Pesos abertos Sim
Lançado 2024
Preço da entrada $0.10 /1M
Preço da saída $0.32 /1M
Provedores de API Together, DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama

Execute-o localmente

VRAM (4 bits) ~40 GB
GPU mínima 2× RTX 4090 / 1× GPU com 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
volume.

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

Entrada (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.100
Saída (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.320
Razão saída/entrada3.2×
Misturada (4:1 entrada:saída)$0.144 por 1 milhão de tokens

What Llama 3.3 70B costs per month

Gasto mensal real com uma proporção de entrada para saída de 4:1 — a razão efetivamente gerada por cargas de trabalho típicas de chat ou RAG.

Carga de trabalhoTokens/mêsCusto por mês
Projeto paralelo 1 milhão de tokens de entrada / 0,25 milhão de tokens de saída $0.18
Equipe pequena 20 milhões de tokens de entrada / 5 milhões de tokens de saída $3.60
Produção 200 milhões de tokens de entrada / 50 milhões de tokens de saída $36

Calcule seus próprios números na Calculadora de custos de API de IA.

Cheaper alternatives to Llama 3.3 70B

ModeloCusto médio ponderado por US$ 1 milhãoVocê economiza
Mistral 7B aberta $0.0220 85% cheaper
Llama 3.1 8B aberta $0.0220 85% cheaper
Mistral NeMo 12B aberta $0.0240 83% cheaper

Hospedar localmente ou pagar pela API?

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 calculadora de autohospedagem versus API calcula o ponto de equilíbrio para seu volume de tokens.

Perguntas frequentes

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.

Os preços correspondem às tarifas listadas oficialmente para a API principal do modelo e são revisados conforme os provedores os atualizam. Descontos por volume, processamento em lote ou entradas em cache não estão incluídos. Compare todos os modelos lado a lado na Banco de dados de modelos de IA ou o Ranking de LLMs.

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