Llama 3.1 8b specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Llama 3.1 8b
Author: Meta

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Jul 23, 2024

Provider: Meta
Release date: Jul 23, 2024; Pricing
Parameters: 8B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Text; OpenRouter
License: Llama 3.1; Hugging Face
Context window: 131K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.02 in / $0.04 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 4 priced API routes · AWS Bedrock (3 regions) · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 16 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 8 GB at 8-bit, about 4 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
62	BFCLAgents and tools · stale since 2026-04-12 · as “Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (Prompt)”	Agents and tools	25.8%	81

Versions and release history

6 versions in this line since Jul 16, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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