How much does Llama 3 8B Lunaris cost per million tokens?

Llama 3 8B Lunaris costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.05 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Llama 3 8B Lunaris?

Llama 3 8B Lunaris accepts up to 8,192 tokens of context and returns up to 7,372 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Llama 3 8B Lunaris?

About $0.07, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Llama 3 8B Lunaris?

In the same price range, OpenAI gpt-oss-20b ($0.018 / $0.09), Mistral Mistral Nemo ($0.019 / $0.03), inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash VL ($0.021 / $0.062) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Sao10K API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Sao10K sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Sao10K · live price

Llama 3 8B Lunaris API pricing

Lunaris 8B is a versatile generalist and roleplaying model based on Llama 3. It's a strategic merge of multiple models, designed to balance creativity with improved logic and general knowledge....

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)

Input: $0.04; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 8K; 7K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Sao10K's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released August 13, 2024. Model id sao10k/l3-lunaris-8b.

What Llama 3 8B Lunaris costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.07

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$0.35

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.13

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Llama 3 8B Lunaris price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Llama 3 8B Lunaris price by host

3 hosts serve this model. Prices are the same or higher than list; the cheapest are first.

Parasail$0.04 in · $0.05 out · 8K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
DeepInfra$0.04 in · $0.05 out · 8K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
Novita$0.05 in · $0.05 out · 8K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Sao10K credits for less

Llama 3 8B Lunaris costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Llama 3 8B Lunaris cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.04 in / $0.05 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$2.50/ month(quotes below are for $5.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	$0.018	$0.09	$0.036	131K
Mistral: Mistral Nemo	$0.019	$0.03	$0.022	131K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL	$0.021	$0.062	$0.031	262K
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash	$0.021	$0.063	$0.032	262K
IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro	$0.017	$0.112	$0.041	131K

Other Sao10K models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2	$0.85	$0.85	$0.85	131K
Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B	$0.65	$0.75	$0.675	131K

All Sao10K API prices