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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
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RANKED #149 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #195 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.2 · 350 VOICES ·
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Aion-RP-Llama-3.1-8B ranks the highest in the character evaluation portion of the RPBench-Auto benchmark, a roleplaying-specific variant of Arena-Hard-Auto, where LLMs evaluate each other’s responses. It is a fine-tuned base model...
HAPPY5.4
12 mentions
SAD9.6
37 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 371 voices in this window
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
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 8B Instruct once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
8B parameters, an FP16 file is about 16 GB and a standard Q4 quant is about 4.7 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB
6 GB VRAM
~$110 USEDQ4_K_M quantized model fitting comfortably with short context, offloading partially or using low context buffer
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDQ8_0 or Q4_K_M fully in VRAM with large context window up to 32k tokens
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$780 NEWFull FP16 precision or Q8 with maximum native 128k context window at peak speeds
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LLAMA 3.1 8B 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 8B Instruct takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB | SWEET SPOTNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~28 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~83 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~7.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~23 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.9 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
The internet is split on Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. Biggest praise: price. Biggest gripe: working when you need it.
331 POSTS · 19 COMMENTS · REDDIT · STACK OVERFLOW · GITHUB · X · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (6 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-04-21 · 129 UPVOTESHiDream-I1 Comparison of 3885 Artists
HiDream-I1 Comparison of 3885 Artists
- REDDIT · 2025-04-17 · 115 UPVOTESHiDream Uncensored LLM - here's what you need (ComfyUI)
HiDream Uncensored LLM - here's what you need (ComfyUI)
- REDDIT · 2024-09-13 · 62 UPVOTESSwitched from Llama 3.1 to Mistral—Huge Upgrade!
Switched from Llama 3.1 to Mistral—Huge Upgrade!
- REDDIT · 2024-09-11 · 60 UPVOTESLLaMA-Omni: a new model for speech interaction (based on Llama 3.1 8B Instruct)
LLaMA-Omni: a new model for speech interaction (based on Llama 3.1 8B Instruct)
- REDDIT · 2024-11-29 · 45 UPVOTESAion-RP-Llama-3.1-8B: The New Roleplaying Virtuoso in Town (Fully Uncensored)
Aion-RP-Llama-3.1-8B: The New Roleplaying Virtuoso in Town (Fully Uncensored)
- REDDIT · 2024-11-15 · 33 UPVOTESI'm having problems with immersive RP.
I'm having problems with immersive RP.
- REDDIT · 2024-08-03 · 32 UPVOTESSimple RAG + Web Search + PDF Chat
Simple RAG + Web Search + PDF Chat
- REDDIT · 2025-07-24 · 30 UPVOTESHiDream I1 Portraits - Dev vs Full Comparisson - Can you tell the difference?
HiDream I1 Portraits - Dev vs Full Comparisson - Can you tell the difference?
- REDDIT · 2025-05-01 · 28 UPVOTESHiDream. Nemotron, Flan and Resolution
HiDream. Nemotron, Flan and Resolution
- REDDIT · 2025-04-27 · 26 UPVOTESMore Dynamic v2.0 GGUFs uploaded: Llama-4-Maverick, QwQ-32B, GLM-4-32B, Gemma-3-QAT, MAI-DS-R1 + more!
More Dynamic v2.0 GGUFs uploaded: Llama-4-Maverick, QwQ-32B, GLM-4-32B, Gemma-3-QAT, MAI-DS-R1 + more!
- REDDIT · 2024-09-05 · 23 UPVOTESmistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-fp16 beats Llama 3.1 8b-instruct-fp16 any day.
mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-fp16 beats Llama 3.1 8b-instruct-fp16 any day.
- REDDIT · 2024-07-27 · 21 UPVOTESLet's make SILLY models and let's see what happens.
Let's make SILLY models and let's see what happens.