Meta Llama: Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite
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Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite is a cost-optimized serving tier for Meta's Llama 3 8B Instruct, an 8-billion-parameter open-weight chat model pretrained on over 15 trillion tokens.
Despite its small size, it delivers strong reasoning, coding, and general-purpose conversation. On published benchmarks it scores around 67.4 on MMLU, 79.6% on GSM8K math, and 62.2% on HumanEval coding, making it highly competitive among models in its tier.
The Lite tier offers the same quality at a lower per-token price, making it a great fit for developers who need fast, affordable responses for chat assistants, summarization, classification, and lightweight coding tasks at scale.
Context Window 8K
tokens
Max Output 8K
tokens
Input Cost $0.14
per million tokens
Output Cost $0.14
per million tokens
Input text
modalities
Knowledge Cutoff Mar 2023
Release Date Apr 18, 2024
Code Example
Add AI to your app with the Puter.js AI API — no API keys or setup required.
// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms").then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms").then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite by Meta Llama through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.14 |
| Output | $0.14 |
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite was created by Meta Llama and released on Apr 18, 2024.
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite supports a context window of 8K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 16 pages of text.
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite can generate up to 8K tokens in a single response.
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite has a knowledge cutoff date of Mar 2023. This means the model was trained on data available up to that date.
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite accepts the following input types: text. It produces: text.
Yes — the Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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