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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
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RANKED #235 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #359 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 58 VOICES ·
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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...
HAPPY9.6
7 mentions
SAD5.4
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 44 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
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
People generally like Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, with some gripes. Biggest praise: price.
60 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
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NanoGPT (provider) update: a lot of additional models + streaming works
- 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…
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- 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 · 2024-08-29 · 9 UPVOTESLlama 3.1 system prompt suggestions.
Llama 3.1 system prompt suggestions.
- REDDIT · 2024-12-20 · 9 UPVOTESHeads up if you use Perplexity's API
Heads up if you use Perplexity's API
- 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 · 2024-11-11 · 4 UPVOTESAny way to force paragraph breaks in AI responses?
Any way to force paragraph breaks in AI responses?
- REDDIT · 2025-03-13 · 3 UPVOTESTips on having the model pick up the "mic" for multiple characters?
Tips on having the model pick up the "mic" for multiple characters?