How much does Llama 4 8B cost?

Meta has not published per-token API pricing for Llama 4 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Llama 4 8B's context window?

Llama 4 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Llama 4 8B open source?

Llama 4 8B ships with open weights under the Llama 4 Community License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Llama 4 8B released?

Llama 4 8B was released on Apr 5, 2025 by Meta.

How much does Llama 4 8B cost?

Meta has not published per-token API pricing for Llama 4 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is Llama 4 8B's context window?

Llama 4 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Llama 4 8B open source?

Llama 4 8B ships with open weights under the Llama 4 Community License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Llama 4 8B released?

Llama 4 8B was released on Apr 5, 2025 by Meta.

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Llama 4 8B

Meta's small Llama 4, built for on-device and edge inference.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Apr 2025
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: Pricing not published
License: Llama 4 Community License

About Llama 4 8B

Llama 4 8B is the size class that fits on consumer hardware and edge devices after quantization. It's the practical default for laptop, mobile, and small-VM inference, with the broadest tooling support (Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio).

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 We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.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

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

Runs on consumer laptops
Broad tooling support
Apache-2-adjacent permissiveness for most uses

Tracked weaknesses

Quality limited by size
Custom license

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Meta.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Llama 4 8B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Llama 4 8B 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-4-8b",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

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

Best for

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Frequently asked

How much does Llama 4 8B cost?
Meta has not published per-token API pricing for Llama 4 8B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
What is Llama 4 8B's context window?
Llama 4 8B supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is Llama 4 8B open source?
Llama 4 8B ships with open weights under the Llama 4 Community License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
When was Llama 4 8B released?
Llama 4 8B was released on Apr 5, 2025 by Meta.

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