Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct vs deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 September 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
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30d
386 K
llama3 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct | deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.0 B | 6.9 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 4,096 |
| Licence | llama3 | other |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 385,543 | 172,053 |
| Downloads all time | 49.1 M | 4.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-04-17 | 2024-01-25 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.0 M172 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5
A overtook B on 30 Oct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 · fp16
16.7 GB / 24 GB
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB