> Llama 3-8B is an open-weights AI model from Meta, released 18 Apr 2024. Index score 84 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 212 of 229 ranked models.

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# Llama 3-8B

Meta

Released 18 Apr 2024

Open

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/llama-3-8b-vs-gpt-4o/)

8469–99

Index score

#212 of 229 models

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 5 anchor tests

−23

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-4 Turbo (Apr 2024)

Replaced by [Llama 3.1-8B](https://themodelindex.org/models/llama-3-1-8b/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

GPT-4 reached this score 13 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 5 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

26%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#212

of 219 · 84

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#181

of 239 · 116.5

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#300

of 386 · 1197

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#309

of 388 · 1224

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#312

of 383 · 1253

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#310

of 373 · 1193

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Llama 3.1-8B; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Facts and sources

Released

18 Apr 2024

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

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Scored as

Llama 3-8B

Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

not linked

## Meta releases · around this one

LLaMA

Open

24 FEB 2023

Llama 2

Open

18 JUL 2023

index 88

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/llama-3-8b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01