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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Fast, cheap and capable. Ideal for high-volume classification, routing and lightweight chat.

meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct
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What is Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta's chat model. Fast, cheap and capable. Ideal for high-volume classification, routing and lightweight chat. It runs on Speka's OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint at $0.05 / 1M input and $0.05 / 1M output tokens, using the model ID meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct.

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Send a message and watch the model respond. Multi-turn — it remembers the conversation.

How to call Llama 3.1 8B Instruct via the API

Speka exposes Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on an OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://speka.me/v1, set model to meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct, and your existing code runs unchanged.

quickstart.py
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://speka.me/v1",
    api_key="sk-speka-live-...",  # your Speka key
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta's chat model. Fast, cheap and capable. Ideal for high-volume classification, routing and lightweight chat. It is available on Speka's OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct.
On Speka, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is priced at $0.05 / 1M input and $0.05 / 1M output tokens. Pricing is per-token with no subscription or seat fee — usage is billed against your plan's monthly allowance, then at the same rate with no overage penalty. Rates are current as of June 2026; check the pricing page for updates.
Speka exposes Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on an OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint. Set base_url to https://speka.me/v1, supply your Speka key, and set model to "meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct" in any OpenAI SDK — no other code changes are required.
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports a 128,000-token context window — roughly 96,000 words of input, suitable for long documents, multi-turn agents, and large-context tasks.
Yes. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is served through Speka's OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so any application built on the OpenAI Python or Node.js SDK, LangChain, or LlamaIndex can call it by changing only the base URL and model ID.

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