Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku leads with 16.8% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Haiku offers 137.9K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is $4.74 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku was developed as the next generation of Anthropic's fastest model, offering similar speed to Claude 3 Haiku while surpassing Claude 3 Opus on many intelligence benchmarks. Built with low latency, improved instruction following, and accurate tool use, it serves user-facing products, specialized sub-agent tasks, and data-heavy applications.
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B was developed as an efficient open-source model, designed to bring capable instruction-following to applications with limited computational resources. Built with 8 billion parameters, it provides a lightweight option for developers seeking reliable performance without the overhead of larger models.
3 months newer

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together