Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.1 405B (Meta · USA) and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 3.1 405B is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is conditional. They part ways on licence: Llama 3.1 405B is "Llama community", Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Frontier-class 405B open model. Self-hosting requires serious compute (8×H100 minimum at FP8). Same Llama community licence caveats as the rest of the family. | Conditional Per current documentation, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is released under the Llama 3.1 Community Licence — a custom source-available licence rather than OSI open source. Commercial deployment is permitted below 700M MAU subject to the Acceptable Use Policy and attribution rules, but training-data opacity and US origin create EU AI Act transparency and data-transfer gaps that deployers should document. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama community | Llama 3.1 Community Licence |
| Commercial use | With caps | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Token count only |
| Origin | USA | United States |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 17/100 | 12/100 |
| Speed | 31 tok/s | 160 tok/s |
| Blended price | $3.69/M | $0.10/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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