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MetaLlama 3.1 70B InstructMistralMistral Small 3.1 24B
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Side-by-side comparison of Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Attribute
MetaLlama 3.1 70B Instructmeta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct
MistralMistral Small 3.1 24Bmistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct
Input priceUSD per 1M tokens$0.40$0.35 (best)
Output priceUSD per 1M tokens$0.40 (best)$0.55
Blended price75% in / 25% out$0.40 (best)$0.40
Vs. market median50% cheaper50% cheaper
Value rankcheapest = 1#129 (best)#131
Context windowtokens131K (best)128K
Max outputtokens16K102K (best)
Input modalitiestexttext, image
Output modalitiestexttext
Tool callingDeclaredDeclared
ReasoningNot declaredNot declared
Structured outputDeclaredNot declared
Listed on OpenRouter2024-07-232025-03-17 (best)

Source: OpenRouter (live)

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  • Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is the cheapest here at $0.40/M blended — 1.0× less than Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B.
  • Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct offers the largest context window (131K tokens) versus 128K for Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B.

Generated from the live figures above. Capabilities are what each provider declares on its listing.

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