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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Input cost / 1M $0.10 $1.50
Output cost / 1M $0.32 $7.50
Context window 128,000 tokens 262,144 tokens
MMLU score 86%

Cost verdict

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Input: 1M × $0.10 = $0.10
Output: 1M × $0.32 = $0.32
Total
$0.42

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $7.50 = $7.50
Total
$9.00

Total cost savings

$8.58

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct saves $8.58 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Llama 3.3 70B Instruct handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$1.50 in · $7.50 out / 1M

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Economical model

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

$0.10 in · $0.32 out / 1M

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All premium

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$450.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$106.80

Routine slice
$16.80
Premium slice
$90.00

Monthly savings

$343.20

76.3% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b, llama-3-3-70b-instruct) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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