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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct vs Llama 3.1 405B
Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Llama 3.1 405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Parameters | 70.6B | 405.9B |
| Context window | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. |
| License | llama3.1 | llama3.1 |
| Modalities | text | text |
| Release date | 16 Jul 2024 | 16 Jul 2024 |
| Languages | Strong: en, de, fr, it, pt, es Adequate: hi, th | Strong: en, de, fr, it, pt, es Adequate: hi, th |
| Open weights | yes | yes |
| Tasks | Multilingual support, Reasoning, Summarisation | Reasoning, Multilingual support |
Where two models differ, this table shows the difference and stops. LLM EU publishes no winner badge without a documented score for that task, and a missing figure stays missing instead of becoming a zero.
When to use it
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- the model page lists 6 languages the European Union publishes in, including en, de, fr, it
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 70.6B parameters, self-hosting needs a high-memory accelerator
Tasks
Llama 3.1 405B
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- the model page lists 6 languages the European Union publishes in, including en, de, fr, it
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 405.9B parameters, self-hosting needs a multi-node deployment rather than a single server
Tasks
Tasks: Multilingual support, Reasoning