Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Pixtral Large. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is $7.94 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral Large supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
Mistral AI
Pixtral Large was developed as a larger-scale multimodal model, designed to provide advanced vision-language understanding capabilities. Built to handle complex tasks requiring sophisticated analysis of visual and textual information, it represents Mistral's flagship offering for multimodal applications.
3 months newer

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI
2024-11-18
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Pixtral Large
Context window and performance specifications
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Pixtral Large

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Pixtral Large
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI