Side-by-side comparison of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is rated conditional; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT".
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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. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama 3.1 Community Licence | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Token count only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | United States | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 12/100 | — |
| Speed | 160 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.10/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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