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Typical 3:1 output-to-input mix, per 1M tokens
Price as of 2026-05-10 · Source: groq_official_pricing
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
Groq-hosted Llama 3.1 8B optimized for low-latency, high-throughput text generation.
llama-3.1-8b-instant is a Text model from Groq (US). HotON.ai tracks it at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K-token context window. Its composite efficiency score is 89/100 at an estimated $0.000 per successful task.
llama-3.1-8b-instant is tracked at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens. A typical 3:1 output-to-input workload blends to roughly $0.07 per 1M tokens. Figures are illustrative demo data.
General-purpose text generation, chat, summarization and content workloads where broad capability and low cost matter most.
llama-3.1-8b-instant supports up to a 131K-token context window — large enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
Within the HotON.ai tracked set, llama-3.1-8b-instant is cheaper than 91% of models on input price and ranks #293 of 535 by overall efficiency.
Yes — morph-rerank-v3 is a lower-cost option at $0.00 per 1M output tokens, while still covering similar Text use cases. Compare them side by side on HotON.ai.
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HotON.ai — llama-3.1-8b-instant (Groq): $0.05/1M input, $0.08/1M output, as of 2026-05-10. https://hoton.ai/en/models/groq-llama-3-1-8b-instantPricing is real (via the TestKey catalog, updated daily). Quality (Arena Elo) is real where the model is ranked on LMArena. Efficiency is a modeled composite of real price and context.