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Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct

meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct:free

Model weights

Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases.

It has demonstrated strong performance compared to leading closed-source models in human evaluations.

To read more about the model release, click here(opens in new tab). Usage of this model is subject to Meta's Acceptable Use Policy(opens in new tab).

Modalities

Price

Free

Context

8K

Released

Apr 18, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Dec 2023

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Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 8B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong performance compared to leading closed-source models in human evaluations. To read more about the model release, click here. Usage of this model is subject to Meta's Acceptable Use Policy.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for Llama 3 8B Instruct is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

Llama 3 8B Instruct has a 8,192 token context window.

Llama Guard 4 12B, Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout and 5 more are other text models from Meta Llama.

Llama 3 8B Instruct was released on April 18, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is December 31, 2023.