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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Llama 3.1 8B Instruct details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is the cheapest — 97% less than the priciest here ($9.20/mo vs $320.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$0.050
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$0.080
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0001
Context window200k tokens131,072 tokens
Max output64k tokens131,072 tokens
Quality score70/10058/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicMeta

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
1,000$3.20$0.092
10,000$32.00$0.92
100,000$320.00$9.20
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Claude Haiku 4.5

Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.

Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

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