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Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) API Pricing & Cost Calculator

Best suited for: Instant keyword tagging, sentiment scoring, routing prompts at 750+ tokens/sec. Standard input costs $0.050 per 1M tokens ($0.025 with prompt caching) and output costs $0.08 per 1M tokens.

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Standard Input / 1M
$0.050
Cached Input / 1M
$0.025
Output Tokens / 1M
$0.08
Context Window
128,000 tok
Throughput Speed
750 tok/s
Est. 5k Req/Day Spend
$18.86/mo

Token Volume Cost Conversion Table (Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq))

Token Volume Approx. English Words Un-cached Input Cost Cached Input Cost Output Generation Cost
10,000 tokens~7,500 words$0.0005$0.0003$0.0008
100,000 tokens~75,000 words$0.0050$0.0025$0.0080
1,000,000 tokens~750,000 words$0.0500$0.0250$0.0800
10,000,000 tokens~7,500,000 words$0.5000$0.2500$0.8000
100,000,000 tokens~75,000,000 words$5.0000$2.5000$8.0000

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