Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
4.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
rapid-mlx · B · Open weights
Params
7.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
372 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 7.9 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | llama3.1 | mit |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Allowed |
| Languages | 8 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 4,864,172 | 371,517 |
| Downloads all time | 191.0 M | 378 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-07-18 | 2026-08-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.05 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.13 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.025 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.9 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | 5.4 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 117,964 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 5 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | No | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
$0.13
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
8.0 M175 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx
24.3 GB / 24 GB