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Meta-Llama-3-70B: GPU memory and hosting cost

Open weights · 70.55 billion parameters · licence llama3

No cloud sells this model per token: to use it you run it yourself, on GPU instances you rent.

Run it yourself

It needs 176.4 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
Alibaba Cloudecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge2 × GPU H 96 GB$14.38$10,500
Google Clouda2-ultragpu-4g4 × A100 80 GB$20.28$14,801
AWSp4d.24xlarge8 × A100 40 GB$21.96$16,029
AzureStandard_ND96asr_v48 × A100 40 GB$27.20$19,854

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