Is Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct or Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct cheaper?

Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.14 vs $0.34 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct or Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has the larger context window (131K tokens).

Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct vs Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct or Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct	Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Provider	Meta	Meta
Input / 1M tokens	$0.14	$0.05
Output / 1M tokens	$0.14	$0.34
Context window	8K	131K
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Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct details →Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct details →

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