Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) and Llama 4 Scout (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is rated conditional; Llama 4 Scout is conditional. They part ways on licence: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence", Llama 4 Scout is "Llama community".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | Conditional Smaller Llama 4 variant: 17B active over 16 experts, multimodal. More self-hostable than Maverick. Same Llama community licence caveats. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama 3.1 Community Licence | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) | With caps |
| Training data | Token count only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | United States | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 12/100 | 14/100 |
| Speed | 160 tok/s | 128 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.10/M | $0.29/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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