Llama 3 Baseten Chat: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Llama 3 Baseten Chat is a multimodal model from Baseten. It offers a 200,000-token context window, costs $3.55 per million input tokens and $16.64 per million output tokens, and averages 73.2 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Llama 3 Baseten Chat costs $3.55 per million input tokens and $16.64 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $6.82 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.43 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.55 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $16.64 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.43 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $6.82 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $20.19 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 75.0 | 333 | 45th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.3 | 286 | 52th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.9 | 255 | 58th | |
| HumanEval | 76.8 | 310 | 48th | |
| MATH-500 | 77.2 | 273 | 55th | |
| AIME 2025 | 68.4 | 288 | 52th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 64.0 | 317 | 47th | |
| IFEval | 82.1 | 273 | 55th | |
| TruthfulQA | 76.3 | 298 | 50th | |
| HellaSwag | 84.2 | 271 | 55th | |
| MMMU | 69.4 | 319 | 47th | |
| Arena Elo | 1396.4 | 219 | 64th |
What Llama 3 Baseten Chat is good for
Llama 3 Baseten Chat is an open-weight model, so it can be self-hosted or run through a third-party inference provider. That matters for data residency, fine-tuning and long-run cost control. At $3.55 per million input tokens (hosted list price) and a 200,000-token context window, it is a practical option for teams that want more control than a closed API allows.
Strengths
- Large 200,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Input price of $3.55 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
- Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- No standout weakness in the indexed specifications, but real-world behaviour still needs testing.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.5 Nano | Anthropic | 32768 | $9.38 | 73.3 |
| DBRX | Databricks | 65536 | $3.29 | 73.3 |
| Firefunction Max | Fireworks AI | 32768 | $9.12 | 73.2 |
| Gemini 3 Pro Nano | Google DeepMind | 8192 | $9.11 | 73.2 |
| Llama 3 Baseten Chat | Baseten | 200000 | $3.55 | 73.2 |
| Nova Lite Turbo | Amazon | 8192 | $9.14 | 73.2 |
FAQ
How much does Llama 3 Baseten Chat cost?
Llama 3 Baseten Chat is listed at $3.55 per million input tokens and $16.64 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.43 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $6.82 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Llama 3 Baseten Chat?
Llama 3 Baseten Chat has a context window of 200,000 tokens and can emit up to 128,000 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Llama 3 Baseten Chat open weights?
Yes. Llama 3 Baseten Chat is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.
How does Llama 3 Baseten Chat score on benchmarks?
Llama 3 Baseten Chat averages 73.2 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #297 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1396.4.
What is Llama 3 Baseten Chat best for?
Llama 3 Baseten Chat is an open-weight model, so it can be self-hosted or run through a third-party inference provider. That matters for data residency, fine-tuning and long-run cost control. At $3.55 per million input tokens (hosted list price) and a 200,000-token context window, it is a practical option for teams that want more control than a closed API allows.