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Llama 3 8B Instruct
Llama 3 8B Instruct is an open-weight model from Meta. It ranks #337 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1166.
- Developer
- Meta
- Released
- Apr 18, 2024
- Context window
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- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
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- Weights
- Open · Llama 3 Community
- Inputs
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- Reasoning
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- Tool use
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The rating LMArena published at each update since Apr 18, 2024. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1166 | 337 / 351 | 104.6K |
| CodingLMArena | 1151 | 343 / 346 | 18.4K |
| MathLMArena | 1151 | 336 / 339 | 14.3K |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1150 | 333 / 349 | 15.4K |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1127 | 342 / 351 | 37.7K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1133 | 344 / 351 | 30.2K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1152 | 335 / 349 | 14.8K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1127 | 347 / 330 | 11.2K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1113 | 329 / 305 | 5.4K |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1168 | 329 / 325 | 5.6K |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1148 | 321 / 325 | 5.4K |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1127 | 338 / 344 | 10.8K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1076 | 350 / 328 | 10.8K |
| SpanishLanguages | 1173 | 268 / 249 | 1.7K |
| GermanLanguages | 1105 | 284 / 261 | 3.4K |
| FrenchLanguages | 1159 | 273 / 252 | 1.6K |
| JapaneseLanguages | 968 | 274 / 236 | 2K |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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Meta
Meta’s AI research publishes the Llama family, among the most downloaded open-weight models. Founded 2013 (FAIR), based in Menlo Park. ai.meta.com
Questions
Who makes Llama 3 8B Instruct?
Llama 3 8B Instruct is made by Meta, founded 2013 (FAIR) and based in Menlo Park.
How does Llama 3 8B Instruct rank?
#337 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1166 (95% interval 1162–1169) from 104,642 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is Llama 3 8B Instruct open source?
Llama 3 8B Instruct has open weights under the Llama 3 Community license.