Meta-Llama-3-8B vs CodeLlama-7b-hf

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

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
139 K
llama3 licence · conditional
codellama · B · Open weights
Params
6.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
151 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Meta-Llama-3-8B CodeLlama-7b-hf
Parameters 8.0 B 6.7 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length — 16,384
Licence llama3 llama2
Commercial use Conditional Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 139,310 150,591
Downloads all time 47.3 M 4.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-17 2023-08-24

Download trend

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

1.9 M139 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B CodeLlama-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

CodeLlama-7b-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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