Llama 3-8B: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Llama 3-8B from Meta AI is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Meta AI
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Released: 2024-04-18 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.050 in / $0.080 out per million tokens (via vercel_ai_gateway, observed 2026-10-13T22:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Llama 3-8B is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.050 per million tokens, is lower than that of 90% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Llama 3-8B benchmark results

Llama 3-8B benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	116	#143 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Llama 3-8B

Llama 3-8B is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Meta AI. It was released on 2024-04-18, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.050 per million input tokens and $0.080 per million output tokens, through vercel_ai_gateway. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Llama 3-8B stands

Llama 3-8B has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Llama 3-8B, benchmark by benchmark

Llama 3-8B lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 116, #143 of 204, with 70% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Llama 3.1-8B at 117. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Llama 3-8B is 11 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Meta AI model released before it was Llama-2-70b-chat-hf on 2023-07-18, which scores 42.9. The next one was Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct on 2024-04-18, at 42.5.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.