InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct/vs/openai/gpt-oss-20b
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs from $0.025 per million tokens and gpt-oss-20b from $0.036 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.418. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.02 | $0.04, most favourable value of the column | $0.025, most favourable value of the column | $1.80, most favourable value of the columnat NanoGPT | 29 | 14 | 131k | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $0.225. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.018, most favourable value of the column | $0.09 | at DeepInfra | $2.43at AkashML via OpenRouter | 52 | 30, most favourable value of the column | 131k |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Nov 13, 2026, 5:49 PM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.