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Llama 3.3 70B vs GPT-4o mini
Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.3 70B and GPT-4o mini: per-token pricing, context windows, strengths, and which to pick for production workloads.
Llama 3.3 70B
Strengths
- Symmetric pricing makes long outputs cheap.
- Open weights -- can be self-hosted or fine-tuned at will.
Trade-offs
- Quality below frontier closed models for hard reasoning.
- Tool-use behavior varies by provider.
GPT-4o mini
Strengths
- Cheapest legacy OpenAI model still widely supported.
- Fast latency suitable for autocomplete and classification.
Trade-offs
- Generation quality lags 2026 frontier.
- Smaller context window than 2026 peers.
Side-by-side pricing
| Metric | Llama 3.3 70B | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Input price ($/1M tokens) | $0.72 | $0.15 |
| Output price ($/1M tokens) | $0.72 | $0.60 |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Cost for 1M in + 1M out | $1.44 | $0.75 |
| Tier | cheap | cheap |
Which should you pick?
GPT-4o mini is cheaper per 1M input tokens; GPT-4o mini is cheaper on output. For high-output workloads (long generation, structured extraction), the output rate dominates.
In practice, the right answer depends on your traffic mix. Inference Labs lets you route the same request to whichever of these two is best for that prompt -- using policy you define (quality-first, cost-first, latency-first) without changing your application code.
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