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Llama 3 8B Instruct

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Streaming Tool useVisionPrompt cachingBatch inferenceEmbeddingsFine-tuning
Context window
8K
8,192 tokens
Max output
—
Input / 1M
$0.300
us-east-1
Output / 1M
$0.600

What Llama 3 8B Instruct is good for

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Llama 3 8B Instruct offers a 8K-token context window at $0.300 per 1M input tokens. Callable in 5 of 31 regions.

Suits

  • Nothing specific stands out from the published capabilities.

Think twice if

  • Long context. Only 8K tokens — long documents will need chunking, and agentic histories will hit the ceiling.
  • Agentic loops. No prompt caching published, so every step re-pays full price for the prompt prefix. Expensive for agents that resend a long context.
  • Function calling. No tool use, so it cannot drive an agent loop or call your APIs — it answers from what is in the prompt.
  • Documents with layout. Text only. Scanned PDFs, screenshots and charts need a vision model or an OCR step first.

This section is judgement, not data from AWS. It is composed from the capabilities, context window, price position and region coverage shown elsewhere on this page — so it stays in step with the daily snapshot rather than going stale.

Model & inference profile IDs

Base model ID — direct on-demand invoke

Pricing by region

USD per 1M tokens
Region Input Output Cache read Cache write Batch in Batch out Source
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) $0.300 $0.600 — — — — API
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) $0.300 $0.600 — — — — API
ca-central-1 Canada (Central) $0.350 $0.690 — — — — API
eu-west-2 EU (London) $0.390 $0.780 — — — — API
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) $0.360 $0.720 — — — — API

Region availability

On-demand us-east-1 On-demand Not available us-east-2 Not available Not available us-west-1 Not available On-demand us-west-2 On-demand On-demand ca-central-1 On-demand Not available ca-west-1 Not available Not available mx-central-1 Not available Not available eu-west-1 Not available On-demand eu-west-2 On-demand Not available eu-west-3 Not available Not available eu-central-1 Not available Not available eu-central-2 Not available Not available eu-north-1 Not available Not available eu-south-1 Not available Not available eu-south-2 Not available Not available ap-east-2 Not available Not available ap-northeast-1 Not available Not available ap-northeast-2 Not available Not available ap-northeast-3 Not available On-demand ap-south-1 On-demand Not available ap-south-2 Not available Not available ap-southeast-1 Not available Not available ap-southeast-2 Not available Not available ap-southeast-3 Not available Not available ap-southeast-4 Not available Not available ap-southeast-5 Not available Not available ap-southeast-6 Not available Not available ap-southeast-7 Not available Not available il-central-1 Not available Not available af-south-1 Not available Not available sa-east-1 Not available

TPM / RPM are default account quotas from AWS Service Quotas where a model-specific limit is published. They are per-account defaults and adjustable on request.

Where this model actually runs

Under a strict residency constraint, Llama 3 8B Instruct can be served without the request leaving 4 of the 25 jurisdictions with a Bedrock region.

Canada India United Kingdom United States All jurisdictions →

Common questions

How much does Llama 3 8B Instruct cost on Amazon Bedrock?
$0.300 per 1M input tokens and $0.600 per 1M output tokens in us-east-1.
Which AWS regions support Llama 3 8B Instruct?
5 of 31 regions: us-east-1, us-west-2, ca-central-1, eu-west-2, ap-south-1.
What is the context window of Llama 3 8B Instruct?
8,192 tokens (8K).
What is the model ID for Llama 3 8B Instruct on Bedrock?
meta.llama3-8b-instruct-v1:0.

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