Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs VLM2Vec-Full

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
TIGER-Lab · B
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
599 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct VLM2Vec-Full
Parameters 8.0 B 4.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 599,002
Downloads all time 175.3 M 2.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2024-10-08

Download trend

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

8.0 M575 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct VLM2Vec-Full

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
VLM2Vec-Full · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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