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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 6, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 6, 2026

#117of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 22 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Artificial Analysis

#107of 115

Score 6.6. Best run: meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#105of 115

Score 1293. Best run: llama-3.1-70b-instruct.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.40

OpenRouter: $0.40 in, $0.40 out Context window 131K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

  1. #114amazon-nova-pro-v1.024
  2. #115granite-3.1-8b-instruct23
  3. #116GPT-423
  4. #117Llama 3.1 70B Instruct22
  5. #118Mistral Small 322
  6. #119amazon-nova-micro-v1.022
  7. #120Phi 421

Questions about Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

How good is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct?
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ranks #117 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 22 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct better than GPT-4?
Not on the consensus: GPT-4 scores 23 to Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's 22. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Llama 3.1 70B Instruct better than Mistral Small 3?
On the consensus, yes: 22 to 22.
How much does Llama 3.1 70B Instruct cost?
$0.40 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.40 per million.

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