LLM Reference

Llama 3.1 8B

Released
2024-07-23
Last refreshed
2026-07-09
Status
Researched 253d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalLong context

Llama 3.1 8B is a released long context model with open-weight and 128k context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context
  • Workloads that can use a 128k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Llama 3.1
Released
2024-07-23
Context
128k
Parameters
8B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
Llama 3 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Llama 3.1 8B is a state-of-the-art language model developed by Meta, featuring 8 billion parameters and optimized for multilingual text generation and dialogue applications. It supports eight languages, was trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens, and employs supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback. The model can handle a context length of up to 128k tokens, making it suitable for complex dialogue systems and various NLP tasks. It has demonstrated superior performance on industry benchmarks and is designed for both commercial and research applications, particularly in areas requiring assistant-like chat functionalities and natural language generation tasks .

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.