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Meta Llama Pricing

Llama itself is free under Meta's license. Real cost comes from inference: hosted per-token rates from providers or amortized GPU spend if you self-host.

Hosted per-token rates

Llama 3.3 70B at Together/Fireworks: ~$0.88/1M blended. Groq: ~$0.59/$0.79 with 5× the throughput. DeepInfra often undercuts both for batch workloads.

Self-hosting cost model

A single H100 sustains ~2K tokens/sec on 70B INT8. At $2/hr on-demand, that's ~$0.28/1M tokens — cheaper than hosted only above ~60% utilization.

Break-even with hosted APIs

Self-hosting wins at >5M tokens/day sustained. Below that, hosted is cheaper after factoring ops, autoscaling gaps, and engineer time.

Latency-priced providers

Groq and Cerebras charge similar $/token but deliver 5–10× throughput on Llama. Use when latency drives revenue (voice, real-time agents).

When Llama beats closed models

Privacy-sensitive workloads, regulated environments, fine-tune-heavy use cases, or sustained high-volume routes where price per token dominates.

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