The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Meta ·Open weights (restricted use) ·Released December 2024·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
#52 of 61
31based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#150 of 316
54.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#73 of 340
$0.20
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.13 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#261 of 345
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is in the lowest quarter of the models we track for quality, and inexpensive for its standing, with mid-range throughput. It accepts text input, outputs text, and supports a 131k-token context window.

It scores 31 on the Known Good Index, well below the tracked average of 60, from 3 of the six component evaluations. Measured against the tracked average, its strongest result is LiveBench (50 against 52) and its weakest is MATH / AIME (5 against 53).

Pricing is $0.13 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.18 average) and $0.40 per 1M output (below the $9.91 average). At 54 tokens per second it sits in the upper middle of the tracked range.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningNo
Input modalitytext
Output modalitytext
Context window131,072 tokens
Max output128,000 tokens
WeightsOpen weights · Open weights (restricted use) (commercial use restricted)
Knowledge cutoffDecember 2023
Tool callingYes
Providers12 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct sits
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Quality

How Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI, LiveBench

GPQA Diamond47 / 63
MATH / AIME5 / 53
LiveBench50 / 52
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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1275
Elo · 95% CI ±3
#238
of 381 ranked models
55k
votes counted
1318
style-controlled (#227)

Ingested 25 Jul 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, with their own price and speed

12 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Groq $0.59 $0.79 $0.64 178 0.2s 131k
Google · first party $0.72 $0.72 $0.72 73 0.3s 128k
CoreWeave $0.71 $0.71 $0.71 72 0.3s 128k
Crusoe $0.25 $0.75 $0.38 68 0.3s 131k
SambaNova $0.45 $0.90 $0.56 56 0.7s 16k
Cloudflare $0.29 $2.25 $0.78 38 0.7s 24k
Nebius $0.13 $0.40 $0.20 34 0.3s 131k
Novita $0.14 $0.40 $0.20 33 0.6s 6k
AkashML $0.13 $0.40 $0.20 31 0.6s 131k
Parasail $0.22 $0.50 $0.29 24 1.5s 131k
Together $1.04 $1.04 $1.04 18 1.2s 131k
DeepInfra $0.10 $0.32 $0.15 12 0.6s 131k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index 31 · based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended price $0.20 per 1M · observed 25 Jul 2026
Output speed 54 tok/s · observed 25 Jul 2026
Time to first token 0.6s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

claude-3-opus-20240229 mistral-large-2411 Microsoft: Phi 4 mistral-small-2503 OpenAI: GPT-4.1 mistral-small-2501 Google: Gemma 3 27B gemma-3-27b-it
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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →