Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct vs Nova Lite 1.0
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
—
30d
203 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
amazon · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.06
Output / 1M
$0.24
AA index
6.7
proprietary · 300K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct | Nova Lite 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 70.6 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 131,072 | 300,000 |
| Licence | llama3.1 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Per API terms |
| Languages | 8 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 203,439 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 24.5 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-07-16 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.40 | $0.06 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.40 | $0.24 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.80 | $0.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.6 | 6.7 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 5,120 |
| API providers | 2 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
$0.80
Nova Lite 1.0
$0.30
Nova Lite 1.0 is 2.7× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16
166.3 GB / 24 GB