Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct

Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong performance compared to leading closed-source models in human evaluations. To read more about the model release, click here. Usage of this model is subject to Meta's Acceptable Use Policy.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Llama 3 8B Instruct is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

Llama 3 8B Instruct has a 8,192 token context window.

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Llama 3 8B Instruct was released on April 18, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is December 31, 2023.