Is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4.5 cheaper?

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.72 vs $15.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4.5?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the larger context window (200K tokens).

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct vs Claude Sonnet 4.5

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers a larger context window. Choose Llama 3.1 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4.5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	Claude Sonnet 4.5
Provider	Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock
Input / 1M tokens	$0.72	$3.00
Output / 1M tokens	$0.72	$15.00
Context window	128K	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jul 2024	Sep 2025

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct details →Claude Sonnet 4.5 details →

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