Meta-Llama-3-8B vs OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct

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
allenai · B · Open weights
Params
6.9 B
Context
4,096
30d
201 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Meta-Llama-3-8B OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct
Parameters 8.0 B 6.9 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM OlmoeForCausalLM
Context length — 4,096
Licence llama3 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 139,310 200,533
Downloads all time 47.3 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-17 2025-01-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

2.1 M139 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct · fp16 16.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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