Llama 3.1 8B — Especificações
Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated
| Desenvolvedor | Meta |
|---|---|
| Tipo | LLM (densa) |
| Modalidade | Texto → Texto |
| Parâmetros | 8B |
| Janela de contexto | 128K |
| Licença | Llama 3.1 Community (aberta) |
| Pesos abertos | Sim |
| Lançado | 2024 |
| Preço da entrada | $0.02 /1M |
| Preço da saída | $0.03 /1M |
| Provedores de API | Together, DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama |
Execute-o localmente
| VRAM (4 bits) | ~5 GB |
|---|---|
| GPU mínima | Qualquer GPU de 8 GB |
What is Llama 3.1 8B?
Llama 3.1 8B is the workhorse small Llama — 8B parameters, a 128K context, and about 5 GB
of VRAM at 4-bit, which runs on essentially any modern 8 GB GPU. It is one of the most widely
deployed open models in production and remains an excellent cheap baseline.
Its enduring value is less about capability than about ubiquity. Because it has been in
production for so long across so many stacks, it is the model with the deepest tooling
support, the most fine-tunes, the most quantised variants and the most known-good deployment
recipes — Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, Together, DeepInfra and OpenRouter all serve it without
surprises. That makes it the right choice for the first version of almost any local
deployment: get the pipeline working against a model that definitely runs, measure real
quality on your own data, then decide whether you need something larger. At $0.02 in / $0.03
out per million tokens the hosted price is close to a rounding error, so it also works well
as the cheap tier of a routing setup that escalates only when needed.
Llama 3.1 8B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens
| Entrada (por 1 milhão de tokens) | $0.0200 |
|---|---|
| Saída (por 1 milhão de tokens) | $0.0300 |
| Razão saída/entrada | 1.5× |
| Misturada (4:1 entrada:saída) | $0.0220 por 1 milhão de tokens |
What Llama 3.1 8B 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 trabalho | Tokens/mês | Custo por mês |
|---|---|---|
| Projeto paralelo | 1 milhão de tokens de entrada / 0,25 milhão de tokens de saída | $0.03 |
| Equipe pequena | 20 milhões de tokens de entrada / 5 milhões de tokens de saída | $0.55 |
| Produção | 200 milhões de tokens de entrada / 50 milhões de tokens de saída | $5.50 |
Calcule seus próprios números na Calculadora de custos de API de IA.
Hospedar localmente ou pagar pela API?
Llama 3.1 8B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~5 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (Any 8GB GPU). 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 3.1 8B cost per 1M tokens?
Llama 3.1 8B costs $0.0200 per 1M input tokens and $0.0300 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.0220 per 1M tokens.
How much does Llama 3.1 8B cost per month?
A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $0.55 on Llama 3.1 8B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.03.
Can I run Llama 3.1 8B locally?
Yes. Llama 3.1 8B is open-weight and needs about ~5 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (Any 8GB GPU).
Why does Llama 3.1 8B 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 3.1 8B charges 1.5× 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.