Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
4.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
12.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
191 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 12.2 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | MistralForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | llama3.1 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Allowed |
| Languages | 8 | 9 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,880,965 | 191,347 |
| Downloads all time | 191.2 M | 10.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-07-18 | 2024-07-17 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.05 | $0.029 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | $0.03 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.13 | $0.059 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.025 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.9 | — |
| AA Coding Index | 5.4 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 117,964 | 16,384 |
| API providers | 5 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
$0.13
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
$0.059
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 is 2.2× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
8.0 M191 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 · fp16 @ 128K ctx
83.8 GB / 24 GB