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Every host for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

×11 between cheapest and dearest input
HostBlendedInputOutputCachedPrecisionUptime
DeepInfra
$0.025
$0.02$0.04—fp899.9%
Novita
$0.028
$0.02$0.05—fp899.1%
Nscale
$0.03
$0.03$0.03———
Groq
$0.058
$0.05$0.08$0.025—100.0%
Ovhcloud
$0.10
$0.10$0.10———
Cloudflare
$0.186
$0.152$0.287—fp898.3%
Perplexity
$0.20
$0.20$0.20———
CoreWeave
$0.22
$0.22$0.22$0.22bf1699.9%
Weights & Biases
$0.22
$0.22$0.22———
Inferenceapis
$0.275
$0.20$0.50———
Blended price: three input tokens for every output token, per 1M tokens.

Cheapest price over time

Per 1M tokens
Cheapest input and output price for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct over timeFree$0.20$0.40$0.60$0.80Jul 2024Apr 2025Jan 2026$0.03$0.02
  • Input
  • Output
The cheapest list price at any host on each day it changed.

What your workload costs

A month, at every host
Cheapest a month
$10.00
DeepInfra
  • DeepInfra
    $10.00
  • Novita
    $11.00
  • Nscale
    $12.00
  • Groq
    $23.00
  • Ovhcloud
    $40.00
  • Cloudflare
    $74.30
  • Perplexity
    $80.00
  • CoreWeave
    $88.00
  • Weights & Biases
    $88.00
  • Inferenceapis
    $110.00

Rent GPUs or pay per token?

Break-even
Renting the GPUs
$16,878/mo
Break-even volume
675B tokens/mo
Needed around the clock
257K tok/s

8 × H100 cost $16,878 a month. The cheapest API (DeepInfra) charges $0.025 per 1M blended tokens, so the GPUs only pay off above 675B tokens a month: the box must serve 257K tokens a second, every second.

GPU price: cheapest on-demand offer per GPU-hour × 730 hours. No throughput is assumed: it depends on the model size, precision, batch size and serving software, so measure yours. Power, storage, egress and engineering time are not included.

LMArena rating over time

Text leaderboard
LMArena text rating of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct over time1,1601,1701,1801,190Jul 2024Apr 2025Jan 2026Oct 20261,187

Rated about the same, by price

Blended, per 1M tokens

Quality data: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0). Prices: OpenRouter, LiteLLM (MIT), provider pages. List prices in US dollars before discounts and taxes; other currencies converted at the European Central Bank reference rate. The figures on these pages are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.