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Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

NousResearch Llama 3.1 Community License out 2 years ago

8.03B parameters, text in, text out, 128K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #571 in LLMs · score 74.5 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 143.2k · #278 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?4.8GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Llama 3.1 Community License'Built with Llama' attribution; >700M MAU clauselicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?143.2kdownloads, 30 days#278 of 619 we track · top 45%+0 likes, downloads −9% this week40 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 25 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 437 HN pts
llama.meta.com 2024-07-23 437 HN pts · 269 comments 42 words about the Llama 3.1 family family

25 best of 25 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. CodeShow HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPUgithub.com · 2026-02-21
  2. Codeg1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chainsgithub.com · 2024-09-15
  3. ArticleLlama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inferencecerebras.ai · 2024-11-19
  4. CodeLlama 3.1 Omni Modelgithub.com · 2024-09-18
  5. CodeShow HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUsgithub.com · 2024-09-11 · 189 HN pts
  6. CodeLlama 3.1 in Cgithub.com · 2024-07-24 · 212 HN pts
  7. CodeLongwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k wordsgithub.com · 2024-10-07 · 154 HN pts
  8. ArticleHermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Modellambdalabs.com · 2024-08-15
  9. DiscussionCerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8Btwitter.com · 2024-08-27 · 95 HN pts
  10. ArticleLlama 3.1: Our most capable models to dateai.meta.com · 2024-07-23 · 27 HN pts
  11. ArticleWhy Llama 3.1 is Importanttimkellogg.me · 2024-07-23 · 56 HN pts
  12. ArticleNvidia presents Llama-Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh with Llama 3.1 8Bresearch.nvidia.com · 2024-11-17 · 20 HN pts
  13. ArticleMeta Llama 3.1 405Bopenrouter.ai · 2024-07-23
  14. ArticleCoding with Llama 3.1, New DeepSeek Coder and Mistral Largeaider.chat · 2024-07-25 · 32 HN pts
  15. ArticleLlama-3.1 supports tool calls via promptingbraintrust.dev · 2024-07-26
  16. ArticleMeta releases an open-weights GPT-4-level AI model, Llama 3.1 405Barstechnica.com · 2024-07-23
  17. ArticleShow HN: Run Llama 3.1 8B in the browserapp.wiz.chat · 2024-07-28
  18. VideoRunning the latest Llama 3.1 8B on Raspberry Pi [video]youtube.com · 2024-07-30
  19. ArticleShow HN: Finetune Llama-3.1 2x faster in a Colabcolab.research.google.com · 2024-07-23
  20. ArticleBenchmarking Llama 3.1 405B on 8x AMD MI300X GPUsdstack.ai · 2024-10-09
  21. DiscussionReflection-Llama-3.1-70B is Llama-3 with LoRAold.reddit.com · 2024-09-08
  22. ArticleNvidia's new Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra outperforms DeepSeek R1 at half the sizeventurebeat.com · 2025-04-11
  23. ArticleChat with Meta Llama 3.1 405Bllama3.replicate.dev · 2024-07-23

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; 15 quantized builds for local use; a big base for builders (221 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware15quantized builds
  • Built on221131 fine-tunes · 85 adapters · 5 merges
  • In apps15Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: Raiff1982/Codette-Reasoning-Demo ♥ 1

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 4.8 GB at INT4, 9.6 GB at FP8, 19 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.8 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.8 GBFP8: about 9.6 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.6 GBBF16: about 19 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1619 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 4.8 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT44.8 GBFP8: about 9.6 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP89.6 GBBF16: about 19 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1619 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2024-07-24), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

236 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

236 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

15 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)131 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)5 merges (Hugging Face model tree)85 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)15 quantized131 fine-tunes5 merges85 adapters
15 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)131 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)5 merges (Hugging Face model tree)85 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)15 quantized131 fine-tunes5 merges85 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

13 rows

Benchmarks 13 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (13)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AGIEval English47.8 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported ARC Challenge · Chat and follow instructions79.7 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported BBH · Reason through hard problems64.2 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Commonsense QA sets · Chat and follow instructions75 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Commonsense QA sets · Chat and follow instructions77.6 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Commonsense QA sets · Chat and follow instructions75 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported DROP (F1)59.5 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems66.7 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems69.4 percentInstruction tuned models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems37.1 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported QuAC (F1)44.9 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported SQuAD77 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Winogrande · Chat and follow instructions60.5 percentBase pretrained models, 8Bmodel author2026-10-07

Use-case evidence

4 use cases

What it is good at 4 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesLlamaForCausalLM
Model typellama
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 8,030,261,248
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length131,072 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen, de, fr, it, pt, hi, es, th
PapersarXiv:2204.05149
LicenseLlama 3.1 Community License (llama3.1)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)19 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)9.6 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)4.8 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: NousResearch/Llama-3.1 236 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 15adapter: 85merge: 5finetune: 131

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Saxo/Linkbricks-Horizon-AI-Korean-llama3.1-sft-rlhf-dpo-8B quantized GGUF 8.03B M apache-2.0 Saxo 3 26.8k
gotzmann/1OV77 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 9k
gotzmann/1JV43 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 8.7k
gotzmann/1JV42II adapter — — — — gotzmann 0 7.4k
gotzmann/1JV36 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 7.1k
gotzmann/1JV36B adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 7k
gotzmann/1JV32 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 6.6k
Cookieeeeeeeeeeeeeee/llama_custom_zero adapter — — — — Cookieeeeeeeeeeeeeee 0 5.5k
llm-wizard/llama381binstruct_summarize adapter — — — llama3.1 llm-wizard 0 5.5k
gotzmann/1SV64 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 5.2k
gotzmann/1JV44C2nd adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 5.2k
gotzmann/1JV45FSDP adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 4.8k
yinong333/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 yinong333 0 4.7k
gotzmann/1JV42 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 4.2k
gotzmann/1JV35 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 4.1k
rchrdgwr/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 rchrdgwr 0 4k
pattonma/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 pattonma 0 3.9k
llm-wizard/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 llm-wizard 0 3.9k
BaselMousi/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 BaselMousi 0 3.9k
jimmydzj2006/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 jimmydzj2006 0 3.9k
Galatea007/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 Galatea007 0 3.9k
ekinnk/checkpoint-AT-atamalar-10k adapter — — — — ekinnk 0 3.8k
Cheselle/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 Cheselle 0 3.8k
achapman/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 achapman 0 3.6k
gotzmann/1SV47 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 3.6k
acpotts/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 acpotts 0 3.5k
gotzmann/1JV40 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 3.4k
jet-taekyo/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 jet-taekyo 0 3.4k
niting089/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 niting089 0 3.2k
gotzmann/1SV71 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 3.2k
skybarley/llama_custom_zero adapter — — — — skybarley 0 3.2k
dgutierrez/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 dgutierrez 0 3.1k
gotzmann/1SV52 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 2.8k
featherless-ai-quants/NousResearch-Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — featherless-ai-quants 0 2.1k
gotzmann/1OV84 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 1.9k
liodon-ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-imatrix-GGUF quantized imatrix — — other liodon-ai 0 1.6k
XicoC/llama381binstruct_summarize_short adapter — — — llama3.1 XicoC 0 1.5k
gotzmann/1JV44C adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 832
gotzmann/1SV48FULL adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 819
gotzmann/1JV45 adapter — — — other gotzmann 0 692

Repository changelog

2 commits

Repository changelog 2 commits

DateCommitSHA
2024-07-24 Upload folder using huggingface_hub d10aef7
2024-07-24 initial commit d24c5a3

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Featherless
hf
NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

25 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency.

Analysis9

llama.meta.com2024-07-23HN front pageabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 437 pts · 269 comments42 words
understandingai.org2025-06-15HN front pageabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 191 pts · 305 comments
github.com2024-09-11authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 189 pts · 52 comments869 words
github.com2024-07-24authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 212 pts · 36 comments5,858 words
github.com2024-10-07authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 154 pts · 29 comments6,696 words
ai.meta.com2024-07-23authorityabout the Llama 3.1 familyHN 27 pts · 3 comments2,136 words
timkellogg.me2024-07-23about the Llama 3.1 familyHN 56 pts · 23 comments
research.nvidia.com2024-11-17authorityHN 20 pts · 1 comments
aider.chat2024-07-25about the Llama 3.1 familyHN 32 pts · 7 comments

Community1

twitter.com2024-08-27about the Llama 3.1 familyHN 95 pts · 42 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (25) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPUgithub.com2026-02-212026-10-07hn
Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter bookunderstandingai.org2025-06-152026-10-07hn
Nvidia's new Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra outperforms DeepSeek R1 at half the sizeventurebeat.com2025-04-112026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inferencecerebras.ai2024-11-192026-10-07hn
Nvidia presents Llama-Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh with Llama 3.1 8Bresearch.nvidia.com2024-11-172026-10-07hn
Benchmarking Llama 3.1 405B on 8x AMD MI300X GPUsdstack.ai2024-10-092026-10-07hn
Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k wordsgithub.com2024-10-072026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1 Omni Modelgithub.com2024-09-182026-10-07hn
g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chainsgithub.com2024-09-152026-10-07hn
Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUsgithub.com2024-09-112026-10-07hn
Reflection-Llama-3.1-70B is Llama-3 with LoRAold.reddit.com2024-09-082026-10-07hn
Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8Btwitter.com2024-08-272026-10-07hn
Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Modellambdalabs.com2024-08-152026-10-07hn
Running the latest Llama 3.1 8B on Raspberry Pi [video]youtube.com2024-07-302026-10-07hn
Show HN: Run Llama 3.1 8B in the browserapp.wiz.chat2024-07-282026-10-07hn
Llama-3.1 supports tool calls via promptingbraintrust.dev2024-07-262026-10-07hn
Coding with Llama 3.1, New DeepSeek Coder and Mistral Largeaider.chat2024-07-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1 in Cgithub.com2024-07-242026-10-07hn
Why Llama 3.1 is Importanttimkellogg.me2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Show HN: Finetune Llama-3.1 2x faster in a Colabcolab.research.google.com2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Meta releases an open-weights GPT-4-level AI model, Llama 3.1 405Barstechnica.com2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Meta Llama 3.1 405Bopenrouter.ai2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Chat with Meta Llama 3.1 405Bllama3.replicate.dev2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to dateai.meta.com2024-07-232026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1llama.meta.com2024-07-232026-10-07hn

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Sources

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Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:40 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:12 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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