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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Current board #219Arena #329Official publisher releaseGated access

Meta·meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is ModelCap current-board rank #219 with Index 8.8 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct listed OpenRouter input price is $0.05 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.08 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a published context limit of 131K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has 5 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct weight access is gated access, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
8.8#219
Measured · 63% support · score interval 3.9–13.7
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Market Gravity
43.1Decreased by 0.4
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.05
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.08
per 1M tokens
Context
131K
tokens
Providers
5
endpoints
Gateway spend
latest · Vercel share

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
DeepInfrafp8Cheapest$0.02$0.04131Kfp8100.0%
Novitafp8$0.02$0.0516Kfp899.19%
Groq$0.05$0.08131K99.94%
CoreWeavebf16$0.22$0.22131Kbf1699.89%
Cloudflarefp8$0.152$0.28732Kfp886.26%

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Exact repository identity

Provider economics and telemetry published by the Hugging Face Router. These are operational signals, not benchmark results.

ProviderInputOutputContextTTFTThroughputFeatures
deepinfra
live
$0.02$0.05131K679 ms21.5 tok/stools
novita
live
$0.02$0.0516K488 ms171.3 tok/s
nscale
live
$0.06$0.06131K592 ms149.6 tok/sstructured
featherless-ai
live

Reported evaluation leads (10)

Not independent measurement

Structured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.

Dataset / taskMetricValueRevisionProvenance
Idavidrein/gpqa
diamond
30.4
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam
open_question
10
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam
mcq_4_choices
24.04
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
openai/gsm8k
gsm8k
84.5
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
src
0.6333
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
time
0.8333
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
access_deny
0.5
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
memory_label
0.6667
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
injection
0.75
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
bot_policy
0.4167
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
8.8
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Current board
#219
Public rank basis
Measured (measured)
Index support
63.2% · strong
Index interval
3.9–13.7
Rank posterior
Not available
Top 5 / Top 10 probability
Not available / Not available
Posterior as of
Snapshot timestamp unavailable
Evidence as of
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · meta-llama/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct@0e9e39f249a16976918f6564b8830bc894c89659 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
2
Qualified Index evidence point
8.8
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
8.8
Evidence status
confirmed · 77% mass
General preference
8.7
Coding
8.9
Agents & tools
Reasoning
Evidence breadth
92%
Evidence coverage
63%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
22.1
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
92.9
Open reach (HF downloads)
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
45.2
Freshness
4.9
  • · OpenRouter popularity #90
  • · 5 live providers
  • · Catalogue: context 131072, tools
  • · First seen 2024-07-23

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

BES evidence selected · measured input only

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
83.5
strong · 93% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
100.0
Access & legal clarity
68.3
Deployability
97.3
Evaluation provenance
53.4

Missing: accessLegalClarity.resolvable-license-terms, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
43.1
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#90 of 322

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

Status
Ranked
Source
LMArena
Official rank
#329 of 402
Rating
1211.1
95% confidence interval
1207–1215
Votes
50K
Source published at
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Category
overall
Identity match confidence
100%

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
22.1

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
92.9

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
50.0

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
4.9

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Context window
131K tokens
Max output
118K tokens
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Llama3
Cached input tokens
$0.025 / 1M
First seen on OpenRouter
23 Jul 2024
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12-31

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Gated access. The weights are hosted behind an access request or acceptance step. Review the publisher's access requirements and license before use or redistribution.

Access
Gated access
Licence
llama3.1
Pinned revision
0e9e39f249a1
Parameters
8.0B
Architecture
LlamaForCausalLM
Model type
llama
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
6.0M
Downloads (all time)
185.3M
Likes
8K
Repository updated
25 Sept 2024, 17:00 UTC

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Arena coding leaderboardArena (LMArena)12601252–1267#323 of 397Default13 Sept 2026
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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: common questions

How does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct rank among AI models?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct holds ModelCap Index position #219 of 248 ranked language models as of 22 September 2026, with an Index score of 8.8 (interval 3.9–13.7); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is listed at $0.05 per 1M input tokens and $0.08 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026; the lowest output price among 5 providers is $0.04 on DeepInfra. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.14 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a published context window of 131K tokens (131,072) and a maximum output of 118K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.

Is Llama 3.1 8B Instruct open-weight?

Gated access (llama3.1). The weights are hosted behind an access request or acceptance step. Review the publisher's access requirements and license before use or redistribution. The repository is meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

5 providers serve Llama 3.1 8B Instruct through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: DeepInfra, Novita, Groq, Cloudflare and CoreWeave. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Llama 3.1 8B Instruct been evaluated on?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has published results on 2 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1260 (#323 of 397) and BFCL V4 25.8 (#64 of 83). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.

How does Llama 3.1 8B Instruct compare with Olmo 3 1025 7B?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ranks #219 (Index 8.8) and Olmo 3 1025 7B ranks #218 (Index 9.8) on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.

When was Llama 3.1 8B Instruct released?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct first appeared in the catalogue on 23 Jul 2024, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.