Which is cheaper, Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
As of August 25, 2026, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is 98% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.03 per million output tokens ($0.06 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Devstral Medium costs $0.40 / $2.00 per million tokens ($2.40 blended). Sources: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/ and https://llama.meta.com/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost per million tokens?
Devstral Medium Mistral API pricing is $0.40 input and $2.00 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Meta API pricing is $0.03 input and $0.03 output per million tokens via Meta. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Devstral Medium has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 61.6%. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Devstral Medium supports a 128K token context window, while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports 131K tokens. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Shared benchmark scores for Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct better for production use?
Both Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct in my app?
Yes. Call Devstral Medium through Mistral AI and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct through Meta with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Mistral API pricing and Meta API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/ and https://llama.meta.com/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Devstral Medium supports up to 128K output tokens per request, while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports up to 131K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?
Devstral Medium runs at approximately 137.1 tokens/second while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct runs at 42 tokens/second. Devstral Medium is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
