Question 1

What is Llama 3.3 70B?

Accepted Answer

Llama 3.3 70B is a large language model from Meta, released on 6 December 2024. Open-weights 70B that matches GPT-4o on most benchmarks.

Question 2

When was Llama 3.3 70B released?

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Llama 3.3 70B was released by Meta on 6 December 2024.

Question 3

How much does Llama 3.3 70B cost?

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Llama 3.3 70B costs $0.23 per 1 million input tokens and $0.40 per 1 million output tokens via Meta’s API. At a typical 3:1 input/output ratio the blended cost works out to about $0.27 per 1M tokens.

Question 4

How smart is Llama 3.3 70B?

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Llama 3.3 70B scores 66 out of 100 on our intelligence index — a strong production-tier composite of MMLU, MMLU Pro, GPQA, MATH and HumanEval benchmark scores. That places it #14 of 22 language models we track.

Question 5

What is the context window of Llama 3.3 70B?

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Llama 3.3 70B has a 128k-token context window — roughly 96,000 words of text. That’s what you can fit into a single request (your prompt plus all uploaded documents and the model’s response combined).

Question 6

What is Llama 3.3 70B best for?

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Llama 3.3 70B is most useful for self-hosting, eu data residency and cost-sensitive workloads. Its key strengths are open weights, fast on groq / cerebras and cheap.

Question 7

How fast is Llama 3.3 70B?

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Llama 3.3 70B generates around 200 output tokens per second with a typical time-to-first-token of 400 ms on the major API providers. Reasoning models that "think" before answering will appear slower on tokens-per-second since they spend time on internal chain-of-thought.

Question 8

Is Llama 3.3 70B better than Llama 3.1 405B?

Accepted Answer

Llama 3.3 70B scores higher on our intelligence index (66 vs 64). On most general tasks Llama 3.3 70B has the edge — but Llama 3.1 405B can still be the better pick on cost or specific capabilities. See our full Llama 3.3 70B vs Llama 3.1 405B comparison at /ai-models/compare/llama-3-3-70b-vs-llama-3-1-405b/.

Question 9

What is the best alternative to Llama 3.3 70B?

Accepted Answer

The closest alternatives to Llama 3.3 70B are Llama 3.1 405B, DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeek V3. Each shares most of Llama 3.3 70B’s use-cases — pick by price, context window or specific capability rather than headline intelligence.

Question 10

Is Llama 3.3 70B open source?

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Yes. Llama 3.3 70B is open-source — the weights are publicly available, and you can self-host it or use a hosted provider (Together, Fireworks, Groq, Replicate). Some open-source licenses include usage caveats; check the model’s license file before deploying.

Question 11

Can I use Llama 3.3 70B for free?

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Yes. Llama 3.3 70B is open-weights, so you can download it and run it locally for free (just your hardware cost). Hosted access is paid via providers like Together, Fireworks, Groq and Replicate.

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