Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) and Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is rated conditional; Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence", Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is "Apache 2.0".
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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 Based on published licence terms, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is an EU-origin open-weight model under standard Apache 2.0 — commercial deployment and self-hosting are permitted without field-of-use restrictions. Training-data opacity is the primary EU AI Act Art. 53 gap, but the French controller, absence of CLOUD Act exposure, and Mistral's published DPA make this a strong baseline for regulated EU workloads. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama 3.1 Community Licence | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Token count only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | United States | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 12/100 | 7/100 |
| Speed | 160 tok/s | 193 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.10/M | $0.25/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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