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

Meta-Llama-3-8B

Name: Meta-Llama-3-8B
Author: meta-llama

Params

8.0 B

Context

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Downloads 30d

139 K

Likes

6,768

Commercial use: conditional · llama3 Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 106 days

▲ 55 K in the last 30 days (28.2%)

2.1 M139 K

Jul 28Sep 1Oct 6Nov 10

Can you run it?

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

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	16.1 GB	19.4 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

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-3-8b
{
  "hf_id": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B",
  "params_b": 8.03,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "llama3", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 139310,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 19.4 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:03:01Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters: 8.0 B
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: llama3
First seen on the Hub: 2024-04-17
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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