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Llama 3.1 8B

Provider: Groq (Meta) Context Window: 128,000 tokens Quality: Medium Price: $0.20 per 1M input tokens

Llama 3.1 8B is the fastest model in the Llama family. Running on Groq’s LPU, it delivers near-instant responses for simple to moderate tasks.

Benchmark Score Percentile
MMLU 68.4% Top 35%
HumanEval 62.0% Top 35%
MATH 45.1% Top 40%
GPQA 28.0% Top 40%
HellaSwag 85.6% Top 30%
ARC-Challenge 83.4% Top 30%

Source: Meta AI technical reports

  • Quick Q&A and chat
  • Simple coding tasks
  • Content classification
  • High-volume, low-latency workloads
Tier Input Output
BYOK $0.20/1M $0.20/1M
Marketplace $0.206/1M $0.206/1M
  • Accurate mode: Rarely selected
  • Balanced mode: Good for simple prompts
  • Cheap mode: Primary choice for Groq users
  • Eco mode: Top choice - minimal compute, fastest response
Terminal window
curl http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "fastlane-auto", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}]}'