Llama 3.1 8B Instruct vs Google: Gemma 2 9B

Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, context window, latency, and benchmark performance. Data refreshed daily from provider APIs and ModelStop's own latency probes.

Key Differences

💰Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is 100% cheaper than Google: Gemma 2 9B

📈Llama 3.1 8B Instruct scores 80.2% higher on benchmarks

Comparison Overview

Price (lower is better), Speed/Latency (lower is better), Performance (higher is better)

Detailed Comparison

Why choose between them?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: Best value • Most capable

Google: Gemma 2 9B: Best value

Spec	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	Google: Gemma 2 9B
Provider	meta	google
Input price / 1M tokens	Free	$0.03
Output price / 1M tokens	—	$0.09
Context window	—	8k tokens
Latency (p50)	—	—
Best benchmark score	80.2	—
Open source	No	No

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — available via AWS Bedrock (us-east-1).

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Google: Gemma 2 9B

Gemma 2 9B by Google is an advanced, open-source language model that sets a new standard for efficiency and performance in its size class. Designed for a wide variety of...

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