Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Price, context window & benchmark comparison

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic

$0.10 / $0.50

Input / Output · per 1M tokens

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Meta Llama

$0.72 / $0.72

Input / Output · per 1M tokens

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Verdict: Claude Haiku 5.5 is 3.6× cheaper than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct on a typical 3:1 input/output mix. Claude Haiku 5.5 has the larger context window (1M vs 131K).

	Claude Haiku 5.5	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Input price / 1M	$0.10	$0.72
Output price / 1M	$0.50	$0.72
Blended price (3:1)	$0.20	$0.72
Cached input / 1M	$0.01	—
Context window	1M	131K
Max output	128K	8K
Intelligence index	36.5	—
Coding index	—	—
Providers	10	—
Best provider uptime (30m)	100.0%	—
Vision input	Yes	No
Reasoning	Yes	No
Tool calling	Yes	No
Released	2026-10-07	2024-07-23
Retirement	—	—

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FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Llama 3.1 70B Instruct?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 3.6× cheaper than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct on a typical 3:1 input/output mix.

Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: which has a bigger context window?

Claude Haiku 5.5: 1,000,000 tokens. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: 131,072 tokens.

How much would 1 million requests cost?

At 2,000 input + 500 output tokens per request: Claude Haiku 5.5 ≈ $450.00, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ≈ $1,800.

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