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Run Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct on Lium
Meta · Text generation · 8B parameters · 16.1 GB BF16 weights · released 2024-04-17
It needs about 20 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX A4500 (20 GB), from $0.16 per hour, billed per second.
Other GPUs that run it
How to run it
Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct:
vllm serve meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-InstructClaude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct need?
About 16.1 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 20 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.
What GPU should I rent to run Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct?
RTX A4500 (20 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.16 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt