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Run it on your own hardware · updated 2026-10-16

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
How much memory it needs, what its licence allows, and whether it fits an office box.

Short answer. Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct needs about 7.1 GB of memory at 4-bit, 11 GB at 8-bit and 19 GB at full 16-bit precision, including runtime overhead and an 8,192-token KV cache. It has about 8 billion parameters and a 131,072-token context window. Licence in short: commercial use allowed, with conditions. By memory alone, on ANVE’s launch configurations: ANVE One fits at BF16, ANVE Office fits at BF16, ANVE Office Pro (GPU) fits at BF16. These are estimates from its published size, not benchmarks.

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What it is

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct is a language model for chat, drafting and question answering, published by Meta on Hugging Face on 18 July 2024. It has about 8 billion parameters and a configured context window of 131,072 tokens.

Its card lists the licence as Llama 3.1 Community License. In short, the licence allows commercial use under Meta’s conditions, including its acceptable use policy and a separate licence for companies above 700 million monthly active users. Access on Hugging Face requires accepting the publisher’s terms first.

Hugging Face counted about 6,252,533 downloads of it in the 30 days before we checked (7 Oct 2026), and 8,269 people have liked it there.

The card lists 8 languages: en, de, fr, it, pt, hi, es, th (ISO codes as given on the card).

It is built on meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B, according to its card.

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How much memory it needs

How these figures are worked out: weights = parameters × bits per weight ÷ 8. The KV cache is added for 8,192 tokens of context, plus about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. Treat the totals as planning estimates.

Each token of context adds about 0.13 MB of KV cache at 16-bit, so 32,768 tokens would add about 4.3 GB.

PrecisionWeightsKV cache (8,192 tokens)Total, estimated
BF16 (full precision)16 GB1.1 GB19 GB
8-bit (Q8_0)8.5 GB1.1 GB11 GB
4-bit (Q4_K)4.5 GB1.1 GB7.1 GB
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Architecture at a glance

SettingValue in config.json
Architecture classLlamaForCausalLM
Model typellama
Layers32
Hidden size4,096
Attention heads32
Key-value heads8 (grouped-query attention)
Head size128
Vocabulary128,256
Configured context131,072
Stored precisionbfloat16
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Will it fit on ANVE?

How the verdicts are worked out: on ANVE One, about three quarters of 64 GB of unified memory is available to the model; on ANVE Office and ANVE Office Pro, the model has to fit in the 24 GB on the graphics card, with 64 GB or 128 GB of system memory for everything else. This is arithmetic against the launch specification, not a test. ANVE’s tested default is Qwen 3.8 27B; this model is not yet validated on ANVE.

Configuration (at launch)Memory for the modelVerdict
ANVE Oneabout 48 GB of 64 GB unified memoryfits at BF16
ANVE Office24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Editionfits at BF16
ANVE Office Pro (GPU)24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwellfits at BF16
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What an office would use it for

This size suits quick drafting, classification, extraction and chat over short documents on modest hardware. ANVE pairs a fast 4B-class model with its main model for quick jobs.

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Similar models to compare

  • DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B (8.0B parameters, about 6.0 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
  • aya-expanse-8b (8.0B parameters, about 6.0 GB at 4-bit before context; non-commercial only)
  • Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 (8.1B parameters, about 6.0 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
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Questions people ask

How much memory does Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct need?
About 7.1 GB at 4-bit, 11 GB at 8-bit and 19 GB at full 16-bit precision, including an 8,192-token KV cache and about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. These are estimates from its parameter count.
Can Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct run on a 24 GB graphics card?
Yes, at BF16 by this estimate, with room left for context.
Is Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct free for commercial use?
Its card lists Llama 3.1 Community License, which allows commercial use under Meta’s conditions, including its acceptable use policy and a separate licence for companies above 700 million monthly active users. Read the licence itself before relying on this summary; it is not legal advice.
What is Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct’s context window?
Its configuration sets 131,072 tokens. Longer contexts need more memory for the KV cache, so the practical limit on a given machine can be lower.
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What is not real yet

No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.

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