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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

List-price comparison ·Gemini 3.5 Flash 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 — 98% less than the priciest here ($9.20/mo vs $540.00/mo).

 Gemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3.1 8B Instruct
Input / 1M tokens$1.50$0.050
Output / 1M tokens$9.00$0.080
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0054$0.0001
Context window1,048,576 tokens131,072 tokens
Max output65,536 tokens131,072 tokens
Quality score72/10058/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderGoogleMeta

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moGemini 3.5 FlashLlama 3.1 8B Instruct
1,000$5.40$0.092
10,000$54.00$0.92
100,000$540.00$9.20
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Gemini 3.5 Flash

Fast, cheap multi-modal model with the same 1M-token context as the Pro tier — good for high-volume document Q&A and image/audio triage.

Reasoning quality trails the Pro tier on complex, multi-step tasks; best used where speed and context size matter more than depth.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

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