Claude Opus 4.8 vs Llama 3.3 70B
List-price comparison ·Claude Opus 4.8 details ·Llama 3.3 70B details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 3.3 70B is the cheapest — 98% less than the priciest here ($31.60/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Llama 3.3 70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.130 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.400 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0003 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 128k tokens |
| Quality score | 97/100 | 60/100 |
| Tier | Flagship | Flash |
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Opus 4.8 | Llama 3.3 70B |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $16.00 | $0.316 |
| 10,000 | $160.00 | $3.16 |
| 100,000 | $1,600.00 | $31.60 |
Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
Llama 3.3 70B
Mature, well-supported open-weight model for general chat and lightweight agents — wide availability across inference providers keeps pricing competitive.
Falls behind newer flagship models on complex reasoning and coding — best suited to well-scoped, repetitive tasks.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.