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Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

AI model Released

Context window
128,000 tokens
Maximum output
4,096 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct 1260.9 Llama 3.1 70B Instruct · 95% interval 1257.2–1264.6 · 55,240 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,215.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.33 – 1,225.06

4846 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,259.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,252.30 – 1,266.49

9389 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,231.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,223.81 – 1,239.33

8250 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,293.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,288.81 – 1,298.45

29694 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,176.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.67 – 1,182.37

34840 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,208.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.96 – 1,219.94

2924 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,261.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,232.95 – 1,290.28

501 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,221.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.62 – 1,238.73

1353 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,241.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,235.27 – 1,246.90

14981 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,261.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,254.11 – 1,268.32

9133 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,235.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.51 – 1,243.50

6381 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,229.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,222.44 – 1,237.10

8719 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,283.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.76 – 1,295.31

3177 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,275.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.61 – 1,283.36

9381 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,253.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,245.32 – 1,261.56

6524 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,257.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,244.51 – 1,269.61

2821 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,259.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.67 – 1,265.82

14811 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,235.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,229.42 – 1,241.87

14962 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,231.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.79 – 1,236.36

21910 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,132.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.20 – 1,149.79

1428 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,140.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,117.37 – 1,163.46

873 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,240.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,233.03 – 1,248.23

7622 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,251.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,244.02 – 1,259.26

7677 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,256.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,248.93 – 1,263.33

10405 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,219.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.20 – 1,224.07

25546 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,260.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,257.17 – 1,264.60

55240 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,233.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.42 – 1,241.56

7285 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,253.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.90 – 1,278.31

606 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,215.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.38 – 1,225.11

4846 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,259.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,252.40 – 1,266.59

9389 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,231.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,223.96 – 1,239.49

8250 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,293.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,288.76 – 1,298.40

29694 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,176.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.68 – 1,182.38

34840 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,208.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,197.00 – 1,219.99

2924 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,261.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,232.62 – 1,289.97

501 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,221.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.67 – 1,238.67

1353 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,241.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,235.26 – 1,246.89

14981 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,261.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.99 – 1,268.20

9133 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,235.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.55 – 1,243.54

6381 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,229.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,222.49 – 1,237.16

8719 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,283.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.50 – 1,295.06

3177 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,275.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.58 – 1,283.34

9381 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,253.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,245.32 – 1,261.55

6524 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,257.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,244.56 – 1,269.67

2821 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,259.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.75 – 1,265.91

14811 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,235.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,229.48 – 1,241.93

14962 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,231.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.80 – 1,236.37

21910 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,132.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.11 – 1,149.54

1428 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,140.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,117.43 – 1,163.48

873 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,240.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,233.07 – 1,248.27

7622 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,251.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,243.98 – 1,259.21

7677 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,256.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,248.93 – 1,263.33

10405 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,219.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.29 – 1,224.16

25546 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,260.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,257.16 – 1,264.58

55240 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,233.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.57 – 1,241.72

7285 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

1,253.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.80 – 1,278.26

606 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.1-70b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

131.4 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 70.55 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

Capabilities

Context window
128,000 tokens
Maximum output
4,096 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Checkpoint tensor payload
131.42 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text