Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
meta/llama-3.3-70b
Meta's open-weight workhorse — cheap and solid for standard tasks.
At a glance
- · $0.72 input / $0.72 output per 1M tokens (provider list price, billed in credits)
- · Context window: 128,000 tokens
- · OpenAI-compatible — model: "meta/llama-3.3-70b" (provider: meta)
- · Free-tier available — new accounts get 10,000 free credits
- · Best for: Open weights available — no vendor lock-in
Strengths
- +Open weights available — no vendor lock-in
- +Very cheap per token, widely available across providers
- +Solid all-rounder for classification and simple generation
Weaknesses
- −Knowledge cutoff December 2023 — outdated on recent facts
- −No native vision or audio input
- −Behind Claude Sonnet and GPT-5 across nearly all benchmarks
Use cases
- →Cost-sensitive bulk generation without premium-quality demands
- →On-prem deployments where open weights are mandatory
- →Fine-tuning base for domain-specific models
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How to call it
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible. Just swap the `model` string and you're using this model.
curl https://www.getmorecredits.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GMC_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "meta/llama-3.3-70b",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }]
}'Frequently asked questions
How much does Llama 3.3 70B Instruct cost?⌄
Input is $0.72 per million tokens; output is $0.72 per million tokens — provider list price. On getmorecredits.com you pay in credits, no subscription, no minimum spend.
What's the context window of Llama 3.3 70B Instruct?⌄
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct accepts up to 128,000 input tokens, with a maximum of 4,096 output tokens per response. That fits long conversations and medium documents into a single call.
What can Llama 3.3 70B Instruct do?⌄
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct supports tool calling. Meta's open-weight workhorse — cheap and solid for standard tasks.
Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct OpenAI-compatible?⌄
Yes. On getmorecredits.com you call Llama 3.3 70B Instruct with the same request shape as OpenAI: POST /v1/chat/completions with "model": "meta/llama-3.3-70b". Existing OpenAI SDKs (Python, Node, etc.) work by changing the base URL and API key.
Can I try Llama 3.3 70B Instruct for free?⌄
Yes, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on the free tier. New accounts get 10,000 free credits — enough for several hundred calls depending on length. No credit card required to sign up.