meta-llama / text-generation Open weights updated 2 years ago

Meta-Llama-3-70B

Params
70.6 B
Context
—
Downloads 30d
136 K
Likes
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Commercial use: conditional · llama3 Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 141.1 GB 166.3 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/meta-llama-3-70b
{
  "hf_id": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B",
  "params_b": 70.55,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "llama3", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 135686,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 166.3 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-08-18T01:00:41Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture
LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters
70.6 B
Tensor type
BF16
Licence
llama3
First seen on the Hub
2024-04-17
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-08-18
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