Released 96 days after Llama 3 8B Instruct · All Meta releases
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is Meta's production-grade lightweight model, released July 2024. With 8 billion parameters and a 131,072-token context window, it offers a strong cost-to-capability ratio, with solid instruction following and reasoning in a compact footprint. The model supports tool calling and structured output, enabling agentic workflows and programmatic integration without moving to larger models. It handles general-purpose tasks including summarization, question answering, code generation, and classification with competitive quality for its size. Its open-weight design and multilingual training make it suitable for fine-tuning and on-premise deployment. It is a common pick where compute is limited yet enough capability remains for diverse downstream tasks beyond simple text generation.
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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct runs on 3 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | No | $0.02 | $0.05 | Input price | ||
| EU | No | $0.01 | $0.02 | $0.0050 | ||
| US | No | $0.02 | $0.05 | Input price |
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct runs on 2 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.
Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. 1 further route for this model is not on the board yet and is not counted above. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.
Each route hosting Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.
Call Llama 3.1 8B Instruct through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.
Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.
import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({model: "deepinfra/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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