Model Detail
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
—Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct is a large language model with 8B parameters released by Meta. The model is registered under the text-generation pipeline tag on Hugging Face, and supports text->text inputs, released under the llama3 license.
Open-LLM-Leaderboard scoring places it at MMLU-Pro 29, GPQA 6, IFEval 48, BBH 27, giving a sense of how it handles instruction following, reasoning, and graduate-level QA in absolute terms.
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct is priced at $0.15/M input tokens and $0.15/M output tokens. Operationally the model offers a 8K-token context window, which matters when sizing it for prompt-heavy or latency-sensitive workloads. At this input rate the model sits in the commodity tier and is suitable for high-volume workloads where per-call cost dominates the decision.
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct ships as a LlamaForCausalLM / 💬 chat models (RLHF, DPO, IFT, ...) architecture with 8B parameters. The published knowledge cutoff is 2023-12-31, so newer events will not be reflected in zero-shot answers without retrieval. Total weight footprint is approximately 8.0 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. Access is gated on Hugging Face under the llama3 license, which means a manual approval step before weights can be downloaded.
Downloads of Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct have moved +28.3% over the trailing thirty days. That is a slight downtrend, consistent with normal cooling as newer models compete for the same workloads. These numbers are signal, not guarantee — week-over-week download counts on Hugging Face also reflect mirror traffic, CI scrapes, and one-off benchmarking runs.
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct is best fit for general-purpose chat and instruction-following workloads, and high-volume batch jobs where per-call cost dominates the budget. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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