llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8 vs Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat

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-fp8 is 100% cheaper than Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat

⚡Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat is 520ms faster than llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8

Comparison Overview

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

Detailed Comparison

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llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8: Best value

Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat: Best value

Spec	llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8	Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat
Provider	meta	meituan
Input price / 1M tokens	Free	$0.20
Output price / 1M tokens	—	$0.80
Context window	32k tokens	131k tokens
Latency (p50)	520ms	—
Best benchmark score	—	—
Open source	No	No

llama-3.1-8b-instruct-fp8

Llama 3.1 8B quantized to FP8 precision

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Meituan: LongCat Flash Chat

LongCat-Flash-Chat is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 560B total parameters, of which 18.6B–31.3B (≈27B on average) are dynamically activated per input. It introduces a shortcut-connected MoE design to reduce...

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