Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs medgemma-27b-text-it-GPTQ
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
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30d
4.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | medgemma-27b-text-it-GPTQ |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 4.8 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | Gemma3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | llama3.1 | other |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Unknown |
| Languages | 8 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,880,965 | 202,049 |
| Downloads all time | 191.2 M | 341 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-07-18 | 2026-04-03 |
| 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 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
8.0 M188 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
medgemma-27b-text-it-GPTQ
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
medgemma-27b-text-it-GPTQ · fp16 @ 128K ctx
29.7 GB / 24 GB