Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
8.0 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
deepseek-ai · B
Params
6.9 B
Context
4,096
30d
599 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5
Parameters 8.0 B 6.9 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 4,096
Licence llama3.1 other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 598,564
Downloads all time 175.3 M 2.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2024-01-25

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.0 M484 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5

VRAM side by side

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

deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 · fp16 16.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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