Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs MiMo-7B-Base

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
XiaomiMiMo · B
Params
7.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
299 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct MiMo-7B-Base
Parameters 8.0 B 7.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM MiMoForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence llama3.1 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 298,510
Downloads all time 175.3 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2025-04-29

Download trend

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

8.0 M285 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct MiMo-7B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

MiMo-7B-Base · fp16 18.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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