Llama 3.3 70B Instruct API price, and what each result really costs
Meta, listed 6 Dec 2024. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; last changed 12 Nov 2026. Source: OpenRouter. meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.71
- Cached input
- $0.71
- Output
- $0.71
- Context window
- 131K tokens
Note: Open-weight. OpenRouter headline (Groq); hosts range $0.10-$0.72 in / $0.32-$0.90 out (one host at $2.25 out). Price updated automatically on 2026-11-12 (OpenRouter (the source this entry cites)).
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $2.34 | $2.93 | $3.91 | $5.86 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $1.95 | $2.44 | $3.25 | $4.88 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $0.92 | $1.15 | $1.54 | $2.31 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $1.35 | $1.69 | $2.25 | $3.37 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $1.21 | $1.51 | $2.01 | $3.02 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $2.88 | $3.59 | $4.79 | $7.19 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Llama 3.3 70B Instruct on your own prompt
Compare Llama 3.3 70B Instruct with
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- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite$0.30 in / $2.50 outSwitch cost
Questions
How much does the Llama 3.3 70B Instruct API cost?
$0.71 per million input tokens and $0.71 per million output tokens, or $0.71 per million for cached input. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; last changed 12 Nov 2026.
What does a result that works really cost with Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.0023 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.0039, because the redone ones were paid for too.