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Meta-Llama-3-70B

meta-llama Llama 3 Community License out 3 years ago

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

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #250 in LLMs · score 86 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 90.8k · #323 of 619 tracked

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 file2026-10-24
Do people use it?90.8kdownloads, 30 days#323 of 619 we track · below the median+0 likes, downloads −6% this week884 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

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. ArticleIntroducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available ...ai.meta.com · undated · official
  5. Codellama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3github.com · 2024-05-26 · 221 HN pts
  6. CodeOllama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110Bgithub.com · 2024-04-28 · 192 HN pts
  7. ArticleLlama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollarsaksh-garg.medium.com · 2024-05-28 · 459 HN pts
  8. ArticleCost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instructblog.lytix.co · 2024-06-14
  9. ArticleLlama 3 implemented in pure NumPydocs.likejazz.com · 2024-05-16 · 476 HN pts
  10. CodeDeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementationgithub.com · 2025-02-21
  11. ArticleRun llama3 locally with 1M token contextollama.com · 2024-04-30
  12. ArticleImplementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jaxsaurabhalone.com · 2025-02-19
  13. ArticleFine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeedmedium.com · 2024-04-25
  14. ArticleLlama 3.1 Instruct 70B Intelligence, Performance & Price ...artificialanalysis.ai · undated
  15. ArticleLlama 3 (Meta 2024) — Veanorsengineeringmaxxing.com · undated
  16. ArticleMeta Llama 3 (70B)docs.oracle.com · undated
  17. ArticleLlama 3.3 70B Review — Benchmarks, Pricing & AI Panel Verdict | TopReviewed.aitopreviewed.ai · undated
  18. ArticleWhat Is Meta's Llama 3.3 70B? How It Works, Use Cases & ...datacamp.com · undated
  19. ArticleExploring Llama 3 by Meta AI - neuroflashneuroflash.com · 2024-06-28

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; 24 quantized builds for local use; a big base for builders (60 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware24quantized builds
  • Built on6048 fine-tunes · 7 adapters · 5 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: yenniejun/tokenizers-languages ♥ 34 · Hansimov/hf-llm-api ♥ 20 · GenAICoder/MultiPDFChatbot ♥ 20 · Justinrune/LLaMA-Factory ♥ 12

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.

9 dated articles and 0 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-04-17), amber triangles are 9 dated articles (each links to it).

What people built on it

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

84 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.

24 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)48 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)5 merges (Hugging Face model tree)7 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)24 quantized48 fine-tunes5 merges7 adapters
24 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)48 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)5 merges (Hugging Face model tree)7 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)24 quantized48 fine-tunes5 merges7 adapters

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Reference

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

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 snapshot2026-10-25

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-3-70B: 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

Original model Family: meta-llama/Llama-3 84 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 48quantized: 24merge: 5adapter: 7

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct finetune — 8.03B M llama3 yentinglin 86 447.7k
dphn/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 dphn 62 258.8k
bosonai/Higgs-Llama-3-70B finetune — 70.6B XL other bosonai 229 156.5k
astronomer/Llama-3-70B-Special-Tokens-Adjusted finetune — 70.6B XL other astronomer 4 71.5k
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-70B-Instruct finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 yentinglin 99 43.5k
bartowski/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 bartowski 10 41.9k
Bllossom/llama-3-Korean-Bllossom-70B finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 Bllossom 92 37.6k
Groq/Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 Groq 180 22k
dfurman/Llama-3-70B-Orpo-v0.1 finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 dfurman 2 19.6k
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct-128k finetune — 8.03B M llama3 yentinglin 11 13.8k
Blackroot/Mirai-70B-1.0 merge — 70.6B XL — Blackroot 7 9.1k
rinna/llama-3-youko-70b-instruct merge — 70.6B XL llama3 rinna 1 3.3k
lxj285/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 lxj285 0 3.1k
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct-DPO finetune — 8.03B M llama3 yentinglin 5 2.8k
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-70B-Instruct-128k finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 yentinglin 7 2.3k
Niansuh/Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 Niansuh 0 1.5k
allenai/llama-3-tulu-2-70b finetune — 70.6B XL apache-2.0 allenai 0 1.4k
rinna/llama-3-youko-70b finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 rinna 4 1.1k
donghyunli/Meta-Llama-3-70B-KronQ-W4A16-g128 finetune -W4A16 37.4B XL llama3 donghyunli 0 925
nihaomur/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 8.03B M llama3 nihaomur 1 811
donghyunli/Meta-Llama-3-70B-KronQ-W3A16-fake finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 donghyunli 0 805
donghyunli/Meta-Llama-3-70B-KronQ-W3A16-g128-fake finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 donghyunli 0 803
yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-70B-Instruct-DPO finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 yentinglin 10 272
ThanatosDi/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct-128k-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 ThanatosDi 0 746
mlx-community/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-4bit finetune -4bit 70.6B XL llama3 mlx-community 1 611
donghyunli/Meta-Llama-3-70B-KronQ-W2A16-g128 finetune — 20.3B L llama3 donghyunli 0 633
ThanatosDi/Llama-3-Taiwan-8B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 ThanatosDi 0 617
Blackroot/Mirai-70B-2.1 merge — 70.6B XL — Blackroot 7 235
Phyoe717/Llama-3-Groq-70B-Tool-Use finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 Phyoe717 0 534
RoseG/MaXaM_Large_v1.72 finetune — 70.6B XL apache-2.0 RoseG 0 519
mlx-community/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-8bit finetune -8bit 70.6B XL llama3 mlx-community 0 503
hkust-nlp/dart-math-llama3-70b-uniform finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 hkust-nlp 1 452
Nitish-Garikoti/aum-1-70B finetune — — — llama3 Nitish-Garikoti 0 482
YuChingLin/Taiwan-Llama3-70B-Instruct quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 YuChingLin 0 481
BlouseJury/cognitivecomputations_dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-Q6_K-GGUF quantized Q6_K — — llama3 BlouseJury 0 428
Zmagar/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Q3_K_S-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3 Zmagar 0 408
bigstorm/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-6.0bpw-exl2 quantized 0bpw — — llama3 bigstorm 3 257
PKU-Alignment/ProgressGym-HistLlama3-70B-C021-pretrain-v0.1 finetune — 70.6B XL cc-by-4.0 PKU-Alignment 1 332
mlx-community/dolphin-2.9.1-llama-3-70b-2bit finetune — 70.6B XL llama3 mlx-community 0 355
YixuanEvenXu/Llama-3-70B-HIP-adapter adapter — — — llama3 YixuanEvenXu 1 286

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Meta-Llama-3-70B, 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 — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

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.

Official3

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
ai.meta.comofficialauthorityabout the Llama 3 family2,751 words

Analysis7

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
All coverage tracked for this model (21) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available ...ai.meta.com official—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.1 Instruct 70B Intelligence, Performance & Price ...artificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3 (Meta 2024) — Veanorsengineeringmaxxing.com—2026-10-07exa
Meta Llama 3 (70B)docs.oracle.com—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.3 70B Review — Benchmarks, Pricing & AI Panel Verdict | TopReviewed.aitopreviewed.ai—2026-10-07exa
What Is Meta's Llama 3.3 70B? How It Works, Use Cases & ...datacamp.com—2026-10-07exa
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
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
Exploring Llama 3 by Meta AI - neuroflashneuroflash.com2024-06-282026-10-07exa
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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