Llama 3.1 70B

by Metaopen weights

Llama 3 family

Parameters

70B

Context window

128K tokens

Released

2024-07-23

Input price / 1M tok

$0.60

Output price / 1M tok

$0.60

Modality

tools

About Llama 3.1 70B

The workhorse of open-weight production. 70B parameters at ~$0.60/Mtok on Together/Fireworks — best-price-per-quality open model until Llama 4. Fine-tunes cheaply and self-hosts on a single 8×A100 or 4×H100 node.

Strengths

Great $/quality ratio
Self-hostable on one node
Huge fine-tune ecosystem
Predictable

Weaknesses

Text-only
Superseded by Llama 4 on quality
Not multimodal

Best for

Fine-tuningOn-prem inferenceRAG

Vendor page →HuggingFace →