Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq): API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) is 95.3% cheaper ($18.86/mo vs $405.00/mo), while Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) leads in token generation speed (750 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) (GroqCloud) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.800 $0.050 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.080 $0.025 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $4.00 $0.08 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1238 LMSYS Elo 1180 LMSYS Elo Claude 3.5 Haiku
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $405.00 / mo $18.86 / mo Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) (-95.3%)
Context Window 200,000 tokens 128,000 tokens Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Speed (Throughput) 130 tokens/sec 750 tokens/sec Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Batch API Discount -50% (Anthropic) -25% (GroqCloud) Anthropic
Primary Workload Fit Fast code sub-tasks, real-time moderation, heavy prompt-cached pipelines Instant keyword tagging, sentiment scoring, routing prompts at 750+ tokens/sec Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Claude 3.5 Haiku → Try Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) → Open Full Simulator