Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Name: Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Author: Hugging Face

llama3.18B

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.1 (8B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

Context

131K

Capabilities

Show unsupported (5)

Reasoning & Interaction

Tool Calling

Infrastructure

Streaming

Fine-tuning

Details

Model IDunsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

ProviderHugging Face

Creatorunsloth

FamilyLlama-3.1

Licensellama3.1

Status—

Typechat

Input modalitiestext

Output modalitiestext

Open weightYes

Parameters8B

Architecturetransformer

Context window131K tokens

Max input—

Max output—

Reasoning tokens—

Knowledge cutoff—

Release date2024-07-23

Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling

Call external functions and APIs

Family Comparison: Llama-3.1

Model	Caps	Perf	Speed	Context	Max out
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	TS	—	—	131K	—
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	131K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	131K
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP8	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Llama-3.1-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.5	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	—
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	TSF	—	—	131K	—

API

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unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.1 (8B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

Changes · 4 entries

unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instructupdate1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM

capabilitiesfine tuningyes

unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instructupdateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM

modalitiesinput["text"]output["text"]

unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instructupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM

capabilitiestool callyes

familyLlama-3.1

model_typechat

parameters8

page_urlhttps://huggingface.co/unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

descriptionWe have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3...

release_date2024-07-23

context_window131072

licensellama3.1

taglineWe have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3...

architecturetransformer

open_weightyes

tools["function_calling"]

unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instructcreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM