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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
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RANKED #210 OF 278 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #332 OF 6,579 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 25 VOICES
Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 70B instruct-tuned version is optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong...
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 20 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Llama 3.1 70B Instruct once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
70B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF file is about 42 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Desktop PC with 64 GB DDR5 RAM and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU off
64 GB SYSTEM RAM
~$750 NEWQ4_K_M running entirely on CPU and RAM, ~2 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB rig
48 GB VRAM ACROSS 2 GPUS
~$1,400 USEDQ4_K_M or 4-bit EXL2, ~20 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192GB Unified Memory
192 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$5,000 NEWQ8_0 or FP16 full precision, ~16 tok/s, 128k full context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LLAMA 3.1 70B INSTRUCT?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Llama 3.1 70B Instruct takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMDesktop PC with 64 GB DDR5 RAM and AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU off | SWEET SPOTDual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB rig | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192GB Unified Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~4.2 MIN★★★★★ | ~25 S★★★★★ | ~31 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~13 MIN★★★★★ | ~75 S★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~67 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~3.5 HR★★★★★ | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~26 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~2.1 HR★★★★★ | ~13 MIN★★★★★ | ~16 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Llama 3.1 70B Instruct yet to call it. We found 25 posts but people did not say much either way.
24 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with text models like this one.
Qwen3.8 27B
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-11-07 · 217 UPVOTESI Just Canceled My Cursor Subscription – Free APIs, Prompts & Rules Now Make It Better Than the Paid Version!
I Just Canceled My Cursor Subscription – Free APIs, Prompts & Rules Now Make It Better Than the Paid Version!
- REDDIT · 2024-09-06 · 42 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2026-01-20 · 20 UPVOTESIf open source AIs win the enterprise race, it will, in part, be because they will be more trustworthy. TruthfulQA's leaderboard reveals…
If open source AIs win the enterprise race, it will, in part, be because they will be more trustworthy. TruthfulQA's leaderboard reveals the mind-blowing evidence!
- REDDIT · 2024-08-31 · 13 UPVOTESComment in r/ollama
Comment in r/ollama
- REDDIT · 2025-01-07 · 12 UPVOTESCodium's Subscription Model Raises Questions: Paying $15 for Claude but Getting Llama?
Codium's Subscription Model Raises Questions: Paying $15 for Claude but Getting Llama?
- REDDIT · 2024-08-25 · 11 UPVOTESOllama server: Triple AMD GPU Upgrade
Ollama server: Triple AMD GPU Upgrade
- REDDIT · 2025-07-14 · 8 UPVOTESRecommendations for low-cost large model usage for a startup app?
Recommendations for low-cost large model usage for a startup app?
- REDDIT · 2026-04-24 · 3 UPVOTESBuilt an automated research summarization engine — LLM picks its own persona before researching (LangChain + NVIDIA NIM)
Built an automated research summarization engine — LLM picks its own persona before researching (LangChain + NVIDIA NIM)
- REDDIT · 2024-10-16 · 2 UPVOTESExploring Llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct
Exploring Llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct
- REDDIT · 2024-10-13 · 1 UPVOTESI thought of a way to benefit from chain of thought prompting without using any extra tokens!
I thought of a way to benefit from chain of thought prompting without using any extra tokens!
- REDDIT · 2026-04-13 · 0 UPVOTESLlama 4 Maverick tool calling is significantly less reliable than Llama 3.1 70B in multi-agent systems
Llama 4 Maverick tool calling is significantly less reliable than Llama 3.1 70B in multi-agent systems
- REDDIT · 2026-08-04 · 0 UPVOTESFull AI Stack on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (GB10) - Optimizing vLLM for Multi-Model Corporate RAG + Monitoring
Full AI Stack on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (GB10) - Optimizing vLLM for Multi-Model Corporate RAG + Monitoring