Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs GPT-4o (2024-08-06)

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
—
30d
210 K
llama3.3 licence · conditional
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$2.50
Output / 1M
$10.00
AA index
7.7
proprietary · 128K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct GPT-4o (2024-08-06)
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 131,072 128,000
Licence llama3.3 Proprietary
Commercial use Conditional Per API terms
Languages 8 n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 209,625 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 14.8 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 2024-11-26 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.10 $2.50
API output price / 1M tokens $0.32 $10.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.42 $12.50
Cached input / 1M tokens — $1.25
AA Intelligence Index 7.7 7.7
AA Coding Index 11.9 —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 16,384 16,384
API providers 9 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct $0.42
GPT-4o (2024-08-06) $12.50

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is 29.8× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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