The closest alternative to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5 — comparable intelligence (14.6 vs 14.5); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.100/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B V1.5 is the closest alternative to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, with an Intelligence Index of 14.6 (Llama 3.3 70B Instruct scores 14.5) at $0.400 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.100 for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.