Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs llama-7b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

meta-llama · A

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Params

8.0 B

Context

—

30d

5.9 M

llama3.1 licence · conditional

huggyllama · B

Params

6.7 B

Context

2,048

30d

241 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	llama-7b
Parameters	8.0 B	6.7 B
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	LlamaForCausalLM
Context length	—	2,048
Licence	llama3.1	other
Commercial use	Conditional	Unknown
Languages	8	—
Downloads 30d	5,910,102	241,054
Downloads all time	185.1 M	7.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-07-18	2023-04-03

Download trend

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

8.0 M199 K

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct llama-7b

VRAM side by side

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

llama-7b · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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