Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
4.5 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
OBLITERATUS · B · Open weights
Params
9.7 B
Context
—
30d
332 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 8.0 B 9.7 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 131,072 —
Licence llama3.1 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 4,504,499 331,612
Downloads all time 193.6 M 944 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2026-08-27
API input price / 1M tokens $0.02 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.04 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.06 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 5.4 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 16,384 not on OpenRouter
API providers 4 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 $0.06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.6 M228 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED

VRAM side by side

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

Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED · Q4_K_M 8.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ornith-1.5-9B-OBLITERATED · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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