Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
70.6 B
Context
30d
203 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
deepseek-ai · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
189 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Parameters 70.6 B 70.6 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence llama3.1 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 203,439 189,344
Downloads all time 24.5 M 5.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-16 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.0 M189 K
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 325.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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