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Llama 3.3 70B

Meta's late-2024 70B refresh, much-improved over 3.1 with better instruction-following and tool-use.

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Quick facts

Released
Dec 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
Pricing not published
License
Llama 3 Community License

About Llama 3.3 70B

Llama 3.3 70B delivered most of the quality of Llama 3.1 405B in a 70B-parameter package, making it the defacto open-weight workhorse for most of 2025. Still common in production through 2026 because of its mature ecosystem.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Meta's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
86.0
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
  • MMLU86.0

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Mature, well-tuned
  • 70B fits on a single H100
  • Wide tooling

Tracked weaknesses

  • No native vision
  • Superseded by Llama 4 70B

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Meta.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Llama 3.3 70B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Llama 3.3 70B from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Meta SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "llama-3-3-70b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

Best for

Tasks where Llama 3.3 70B ranks among LLMDex's top picks.

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Llama 3.3 70B cost?
    Meta has not published per-token API pricing for Llama 3.3 70B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
  • What is Llama 3.3 70B's context window?
    Llama 3.3 70B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Llama 3.3 70B open source?
    Llama 3.3 70B ships with open weights under the Llama 3 Community License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
  • When was Llama 3.3 70B released?
    Llama 3.3 70B was released on Dec 6, 2024 by Meta.
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