Meta · Open weights
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Weights are free, but you must log in to Hugging Face and accept the licence before downloading.
Open weights Available 🕒 Verified on 2026-10-10
Free conditions
- Free conditions
- Weights are free, but you must log in to Hugging Face and accept the licence before downloading.
- Free until
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- Rate limits
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- Sign-up / login
- Required
- Real-name verification
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- Credit card
- Not required
- Region
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- Data use
- When self-hosted, your data stays on your machine.
ⓘ Free to download; running it needs your own hardware or a paid host.
Specs
- Provider
- Meta
- Platform
- Hugging Face
- Type
- Open weights
- Modalities
- Text
- Parameters
- ≈8.0B (from weight files)
- Context length
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- License
- Llama 3.1 Community License
- Tool calling
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- Released
- 2024-07-18
How to access
- Hugging Face
- https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Official sources
- Hugging Face – meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
🕒 Verified on 2026-10-10 · Free terms change often. Always confirm limits, data-use policy and regional availability on the official page before relying on a free tier.
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