Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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7.5/10

Dimension Breakdown

Tool Calling 7/10

Reliability of function/tool calling — correct schema adherence and parameter extraction

Cost Efficiency 9/10

Price per token relative to output quality for agent tasks

Latency 7/10

Response time — time to first token and total generation time under load

API Reliability 8/10

Uptime, rate limit headroom, and error rates in production

Context Quality 7/10

Long-context coherence and instruction following over turns

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Open-source cost efficiency leader for self-hosted deployments, good general performance but tool-calling lags proprietary models.

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Last updated: May 4, 2026