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Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct

meta-llama Llama 3 Community License out 3 years ago

70.6B parameters, text in, text out. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-26 07:27 UTC Rank #169 in LLMs · score 90.9 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 31k · #416 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 1 new quantized build on the Hub (47 in all).2026-10-24

Can I run it?42GB at INT4Estimatefits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory)method
Can I use it?Llama 3 Community License'Built with Llama' attribution; >700M MAU clause; naming rule for derivativeslicence file2026-10-26
Do people use it?31kdownloads, 30 days#416 of 619 we track · below the median+1 likes, downloads −59% this week1,536 likesHugging Face2026-10-26

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 21 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 1,041 HN pts

Llama3 implemented from scratch

An educational implementation of Llama 3 performs the model one matrix multiplication at a time using tiktoken for tokenization.

  • The implementation does not include a BPE tokenizer, requiring users to download an external library for tokenization.
  • The model configuration specifies a norm_eps value of 1e-05 to prevent division by zero during RMS normalization.
github.com 2024-05-19 1,041 HN pts · 269 comments 2.5k words about the Llama 3 family family

21 best of 21 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 19. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleLlama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable modelsai.meta.com · 2024-09-25 · 924 HN pts · official
  2. ArticleMeta Llama 3llama.meta.com · 2024-04-18 · 2,199 HN pts · official
  3. CodeShow HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPUgithub.com · 2024-05-03 · 547 HN pts
  4. Codellama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3github.com · 2024-05-26 · 221 HN pts
  5. CodeOllama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110Bgithub.com · 2024-04-28 · 192 HN pts
  6. ArticleLlama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollarsaksh-garg.medium.com · 2024-05-28 · 459 HN pts
  7. ArticleCost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instructblog.lytix.co · 2024-06-14
  8. ArticleLlama 3 implemented in pure NumPydocs.likejazz.com · 2024-05-16 · 476 HN pts
  9. CodeDeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementationgithub.com · 2025-02-21 · 222 HN pts
  10. ArticleRun llama3 locally with 1M token contextollama.com · 2024-04-30
  11. ArticleImplementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jaxsaurabhalone.com · 2025-02-19
  12. ArticleFine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeedmedium.com · 2024-04-25
  13. ArticleLLM Comparison/Test: Llama 3 Instruct 70B + 8B HF/GGUF ...huggingface.co · undated
  14. ArticleLlama 3.3 70B Instruct — Architecture, Evals & Inference Performance | InferenceXinferencex.semianalysis.com · undated
  15. ArticleLlama 3.3 Instruct 70B vs Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B: Model Comparison | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  16. ArticleLlama 3.3 70B Instruct | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai · 2026-06-03
  17. ArticleLlama 3.3 70B Review — Benchmarks, Pricing & AI Panel Verdict | TopReviewed.aitopreviewed.ai · undated
  18. ArticleLlama 3.3 70B Instruct | Reference Models | Made By Agentsmadebyagents.com · undated
  19. ArticleMeta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — quality, speed & price analysis | The Known Goodtheknowngood.com · 2024-12-06

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 26

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; 47 quantized builds for local use; a big base for builders (115 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware47quantized builds
  • Built on11556 fine-tunes · 55 adapters · 4 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: KingNish/OpenGPT-4o ♥ 4,302 · HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1 ♥ 1,455 · baconnier/prompt-plus-plus ♥ 246 · allenai/WildBench ♥ 232

Will it fit?

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

Fits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory) at INT4

About 42 GB at INT4, 85 GB at FP8, 169 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 42 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT442 GBFP8: about 85 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP885 GBBF16: about 169 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16169 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 42 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT442 GBFP8: about 85 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP885 GBBF16: about 169 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16169 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.

10 dated articles and 0 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-04-17), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it).

What people built on it

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

162 derivatives on the Hub, led by 56 fine-tunes

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

47 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)56 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)55 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)47 quantized56 fine-tunes4 merges55 adapters
47 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)56 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)55 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)47 quantized56 fine-tunes4 merges55 adapters

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Reference

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

Use-case evidence

1 use case

What it is good at 1 use case

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

16 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesLlamaForCausalLM
Model typellama
Params by dtypeBF16: 70,553,706,496
Size bandXL
MoEno
Gatedmanual
LicenseLlama 3 Community License (llama3)
Hub snapshot2026-10-26

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 4b1c04e76fe9ac3ca8b7e541dd423e7d5f38dc60SGLang: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 60d941293e3af27a12c6eb64e2c3e2e1a17f100f

vLLM registry (4b1c04e76fe9ac3ca8b7e541dd423e7d5f38dc60) · SGLang registry (60d941293e3af27a12c6eb64e2c3e2e1a17f100f) · 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-3-70B-Instruct: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)169 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)85 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)42 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)

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

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Fine-tuned from meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B (same organization) Family: meta-llama/Llama-3 162 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B

quantized: 47finetune: 56merge: 4adapter: 55

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

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Quant
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
RedHatAI/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 quantized -quant 70.6B XL llama3 RedHatAI 2 582.7k
aaditya/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B finetune — — — llama3 aaditya 519 354.4k
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.2-llama3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 MaziyarPanahi 17 190k
mozilla-ai/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-llamafile finetune — — — other mozilla-ai 37 155.1k
lmstudio-community/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — lmstudio-community 111 123.7k
QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other QuantFactory 47 113.6k
Nexusflow/Athene-70B finetune — 70.6B XL other Nexusflow 199 95.9k
shenzhi-wang/Llama3-70B-Chinese-Chat-GGUF-4bit quantized GGUF — — llama3 shenzhi-wang 18 42.4k
MaziyarPanahi/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GPTQ quantized GPTQ 70.6B XL — MaziyarPanahi 19 40k
QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF-v2 quantized GGUF — — other QuantFactory 16 39.1k
shenzhi-wang/Llama3-70B-Chinese-Chat finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 shenzhi-wang 103 29.5k
qwp4w3hyb/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-iMat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other qwp4w3hyb 3 21.9k
LiteLLMs/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 LiteLLMs 8 17.7k
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.4-llama3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 MaziyarPanahi 14 17.1k
mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct finetune — 122B XXL other mlabonne 201 7.5k
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.3-llama3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 MaziyarPanahi 4 16.8k
second-state/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other second-state 4 13.7k
Model-SafeTensors/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B finetune — — — llama3 Model-SafeTensors 0 13.9k
bartowski/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other bartowski 4 11.4k
lmstudio-community/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-BPE-fix-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — lmstudio-community 4 8.9k
TsinghuaC3I/Llama-3-70B-UltraMedical finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 TsinghuaC3I 7 8.1k
MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-32k-v0.1 finetune — 70.6B XL other MaziyarPanahi 6 6.5k
Nexusflow/Athene-RM-70B finetune — 69.5B XL other Nexusflow 9 5k
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.1-llama3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 MaziyarPanahi 7 3.3k
rinna/llama-3-youko-70b-instruct merge — 70.6B XL llama3 rinna 1 3.3k
DevQuasar-11/meta-llama.Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar-11 0 3.2k
LiteLLMs/Meta-Llama-3-120B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other LiteLLMs 1 3.1k
screevoai/llama3-70b-instruct-4bit quantized -4bit 72.7B XL other screevoai 1 3.1k
LoneStriker/OpenBioLLM-Llama3-70B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 LoneStriker 1 2.7k
mlc-ai/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-q3f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 1 2.7k
tensorblock/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 tensorblock 0 2.3k
QuixiAI/Llama-3-70B-Gradient-524k-adapter finetune — — — llama3 QuixiAI 33 0
QuixiAI/Llama-3-70B-Gradient-1048k-adapter finetune — — — llama3 QuixiAI 33 0
FriendliAI/Meta-Llama-3-70B-fp8 finetune -fp8 70.6B XL other FriendliAI 5 962
FriendliAI/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-fp8 finetune -fp8 70.6B XL other FriendliAI 2 926
spb-wd/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — spb-wd 0 971
shisa-ai/shisa-v1-llama3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 shisa-ai 4 605
DISLab/SummLlama3-70B finetune — 70.6B XL — DISLab 8 371
MaziyarPanahi/Llama-3-70B-Instruct-v0.1 finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 MaziyarPanahi 1 654
bactrianus/HotpotQA-Reader-Llama-3-70B-Instruct finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 bactrianus 0 687

Repository changelog

1 change
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24all changes

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Meta-Llama-3-70B-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
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meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct — — — — — — — live 2026-10-26

Articles and coverage

21 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official2

ai.meta.com2024-09-25officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 924 pts · 328 comments2,460 words
Meta releases Llama 3.2, featuring small and medium-sized vision LLMs (11B and 90B) alongside lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) designed for edge and mobile devices. The 11B and 90B models serve as drop-in replacements for their corresponding text model equivalents while the 1B and 3B models support a context length of 128K tokens and are enabled on day one for Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware. Both pre-trained and aligned vision models are available for fine-tuning using torchtune and local deployment via torchchat, with weights based on BFloat16 numerics.written, reviewed, cited
  • The 11B and 90B vision models require an entirely new model architecture that supports image reasoning.
  • Developers can keep all text-only capabilities intact because the adapter training intentionally did not update the language-model parameters.
  • The 1B and 3B models are created by using structured pruning in a single shot manner from the Llama 3.1 8B.
llama.meta.com2024-04-18officialHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 2,199 pts · 923 comments42 words

Analysis8

github.com2024-05-19authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 1,041 pts · 269 comments2,465 words
An educational implementation of Llama 3 performs the model one matrix multiplication at a time using tiktoken for tokenization. The architecture includes 32 transformer layers, 32 attention heads, and a rope_theta of 500000.0, loading weights directly from the official Meta file. Attention weights are bundled together to help parallelize attention head multiplication rather than to reduce computation.written, reviewed, cited
  • The implementation does not include a BPE tokenizer, requiring users to download an external library for tokenization.
  • The model configuration specifies a norm_eps value of 1e-05 to prevent division by zero during RMS normalization.
  • Key weight matrices are shared across four attention heads to reduce the total number of computations required.
github.com2024-05-03authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 547 pts · 139 comments233 words
Secret-llama is an entirely-in-browser LLM chatbot powered by the webllm inference engine that runs fully private without needing a server. It supports models like Llama 3 and Mistral, ranging in size from 600MB to 4.3GB, requiring WebGPU support. Users can try it directly online, while developers compile the React code using yarn build-and-preview.written, reviewed, cited
github.com2024-11-21authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 579 pts · 99 comments5,768 words
The project trained a Sparse Autoencoder on 6.5 Billion activations from Llama 3.2-3B layer 23 over 10 epochs. Data capture processed 25 million sentences totaling 4TB of raw activation data compressed to 3.2TB.generated, cited
github.com2024-05-26authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 221 pts · 62 comments546 words
LlamaFS is a self-organizing file manager that automatically renames and organizes files based on content and conventions. It requires Python 3.10 or higher and runs in batch or watch modes, processing most operations in <500ms. The system uses Llama 3 via Groq or Ollama, serving the application locally on port 8000.written, reviewed, cited
github.com2024-04-28authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 192 pts · 64 comments38 words
aksh-garg.medium.com2024-05-28HN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 459 pts · 77 comments
docs.likejazz.com2024-05-16HN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 476 pts · 50 comments
github.com2025-02-21authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 222 pts · 14 comments12,330 words
All coverage tracked for this model (21) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
LLM Comparison/Test: Llama 3 Instruct 70B + 8B HF/GGUF ...huggingface.co—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — Architecture, Evals & Inference Performance | InferenceXinferencex.semianalysis.com—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B vs Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B: Model Comparison | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 70B Review — Benchmarks, Pricing & AI Panel Verdict | TopReviewed.aitopreviewed.ai—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Reference Models | Made By Agentsmadebyagents.com—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai2026-06-032026-10-07exa
DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementationgithub.com2025-02-212026-10-07hn
Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jaxsaurabhalone.com2025-02-192026-10-07hn
Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — quality, speed & price analysis | The Known Goodtheknowngood.com2024-12-062026-10-07exa
Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencodersgithub.com2024-11-212026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable modelsai.meta.com official2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instructblog.lytix.co2024-06-142026-10-07hn
Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollarsaksh-garg.medium.com2024-05-282026-10-07hn
llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3github.com2024-05-262026-10-07hn
Llama3 implemented from scratchgithub.com2024-05-192026-10-07hn
Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPydocs.likejazz.com2024-05-162026-10-07hn
Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPUgithub.com2024-05-032026-10-07hn
Run llama3 locally with 1M token contextollama.com2024-04-302026-10-07hn
Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110Bgithub.com2024-04-282026-10-07hn
Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeedmedium.com2024-04-252026-10-07hn
Meta Llama 3llama.meta.com official2024-04-182026-10-07hn

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