Meta AI Open Weights (Llama 3.3 Community License)Status: active

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta's open-weights 70B flagship matching Llama 3.1 405B capabilities on industry benchmarks at 1/5th the compute.

Released: Dec 6, 2024
Last Verified: Aug 10, 2026
Context Window

128k

Tokens

Max Output

8.192k

Output limit

Architecture

Dense Transformer

Model family

Parameters

70B

Total / Active

Input Token Cost

$0.12

Per 1M tokens

Output Token Cost

$0.30

Per 1M tokens

Model Overview

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct delivers industry-leading open-weights performance comparable to 405B parameter models. Features 128k context window, robust tool calling, structured JSON output, and broad local deployment compatibility with vLLM, Ollama, and llama.cpp.

Developer Implementation Notes

Can be run locally in 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M) on a single 48GB GPU (or dual 24GB RTX 3090/4090s) and 64GB Mac Studio.

Key Strengths

  • Open-weights with permissive commercial license (under 700M MAU)
  • Matches previous 405B capabilities on coding and reasoning
  • Fits comfortably on dual 24GB GPUs or single 48GB A40/A6000
  • Extensive ecosystem tooling support

Limitations & Boundaries

  • Text only (no native image or audio support)
  • Higher memory footprint than 32B models

Capabilities & Modalities

Modalities:text
Reasoning Chains:No
Tool / Function Calling:Supported
Structured Outputs:Supported
Fine-Tuning:Supported
Local Deployment:Yes
Min VRAM:38 GB

Best Production Use Cases

  • On-premise enterprise deployment and data privacy compliance
  • Custom fine-tuning for proprietary company data
  • Cost-effective agent and copilot backends

Verified Benchmark Results

Standardized evaluations with methodology notes and authoritative citation links.

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Coding Official
LiveCodeBench

47.9%

Pass@1, 0-shot code generation

Reasoning & Math Official
GPQA Diamond

52.8%

Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought

General Knowledge & Frontier Official
MMLU-Pro

71.0%

5-shot CoT evaluation

Pricing & Inference Cost Calculator

Token Cost Estimator – Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Calculate projected inference spend with prompt caching

Quick Workload Presets

Input Tokens / Req2,000
100100k200k
Output Tokens / Req500
5016k32k
Number of Requests1,000
125k50k
Cache Hit Rate0%
0% (No cache)50%90% (Max)
Total Input Spend

$0.2400

2.00M input tokens

Total Output Spend

$0.1500

0.50M output tokens

Estimated Total Cost

$0.39

Avg: $0.00039 / req

Rates: $0.12 in / $0.30 out per million tokens (Together AI / Fireworks / Groq)Last verified: Aug 10, 2026

Deployment & Integration Options

Ollama (Local)local ollama
ollama run llama3.3:70b
Hardware: 40GB - 48GB VRAMProvider Console

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