Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Nemotron-3.5-Content-Safety
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 | Nemotron-3.5-Content-Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 4.3 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | llama3.1 | other |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Unknown |
| Languages | 8 | 12 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,880,965 | 34,521 |
| Downloads all time | 191.2 M | 348 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-07-18 | 2026-05-22 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.05 | $0.20 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | $0.20 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.13 | $0.40 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.025 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.9 | — |
| AA Coding Index | 5.4 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 117,964 | 117,964 |
| API providers | 5 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | No | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
$0.13
Nemotron-3.5-Content-Safety
$0.40
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct is 3.1× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
8.0 M24 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Nemotron-3.5-Content-Safety
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Nemotron-3.5-Content-Safety · fp16
10.6 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB