Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Name: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Author: Meta

Sovereignty and hosting

Catalogue only

This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.

Summary

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta’s mid-small instruction model with a 128k-token context window and tool-calling support, released under the Llama 3.1 Community License. That licence permits commercial use but requires a licence from Meta above 700 million monthly active users and adds an acceptable-use policy. It remains one of the most downloaded open checkpoints and a standard baseline; in the OpenGPT-X European-language evaluation it scores 0.563 on EU21.

Specifications

Provider: Meta (US)
Context window: 131k
Parameters: 8.03B
Modalities: text
License: llama3.1 · licence
Open weights: yes
Release date: 23 Jul 2024
Tasks: cheap, rag, summarization, multilingual-support, customer-support

Languages

Strong: en, de, fr, it, pt, es

Adequate: hi, th

Languages

Strong

Adequate

Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. — a language is listed as strong only where a source claims it; the card links the evidence where one exists.

When to use it

Strengths

128k-token context window at the 8B size class
very broad tooling and quantisation support
published EU21 evaluation against European-focused models

Limits

Llama 3.1 Community License, not an OSI licence, with a 700M MAU threshold
English-centric training data; weaker on smaller EU languages
released July 2024 and behind current 8B models

Pricing

This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.

Verification status

Where a field has no source, the card shows it as unverified instead of filling it in. An empty field is information.

LLM EU Verified means documented, not legally certified. It is not an AI Act conformity assessment and LLM EU is not an EU body.

Versions and variants

catalogue · Catalogue only · weights

Example request

curl https://api.llmeu.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMEU_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"llama-3-1-8b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

No playground is deployed for this model: no endpoint serves it, so a request would have nowhere to go.

Benchmarks

EU21 average (translated ARC, HellaSwag, TruthfulQA, MMLU): 0.563 (OpenGPT-X evaluation) source

Sources

Card changelog

23 Jul 2024 — Release date
19 Sept 2026 — Last reviewed

Last reviewed: 19 Sept 2026

Tasks

Customer support