Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 September 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
5.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
TheBloke · B
Params
7.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
205 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-AWQ
Parameters 8.0 B 7.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 5,910,102 204,977
Downloads all time 185.1 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2023-12-11

Download trend

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

8.0 M205 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-AWQ · fp16 6.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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