Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs wildguard

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

meta-llama · A

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Params

8.0 B

Context

—

30d

5.9 M

llama3.1 licence · conditional

allenai · B

Params

7.3 B

Context

—

30d

214 K

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	wildguard
Parameters	8.0 B	7.3 B
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	MistralForCausalLM
Context length	—	—
Licence	llama3.1	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Conditional	Allowed
Languages	8	1
Downloads 30d	5,910,102	213,990
Downloads all time	185.1 M	1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub	2024-07-18	2024-06-15

Download trend

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

8.0 M187 K

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct wildguard

VRAM side by side

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

wildguard · fp16 17.5 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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