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Marin 8B Instruct vs Teuken 7B Instruct

Marin 8B Instruct (2025) and Teuken 7B Instruct (2024) are compact production models from Marin and OpenGPT-X. Marin 8B Instruct ships a 128k-token context window, while Teuken 7B Instruct ships a 4k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads. It focuses on practical selection signals rather than broad model-family marketing.

Marin 8B Instruct fits 32x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and Teuken 7B Instruct for tighter calls.

Decision scorecard

Local evidence first
SignalMarin 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
Best forgeneral production evaluationgeneral production evaluation
Decision fitLong contextGeneral
Context window128k4k
Cheapest output--
Provider routes1 tracked1 tracked
Shared benchmarks0 shared0 shared

Decision tradeoffs

Choose Marin 8B Instruct when...
  • Marin 8B Instruct has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
  • Local decision data tags Marin 8B Instruct for Long context.
Choose Teuken 7B Instruct when...
  • Use Teuken 7B Instruct when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.

Monthly cost at traffic

Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.

Marin 8B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Teuken 7B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.

Switch friction

Marin 8B Instruct -> Teuken 7B Instruct
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
Teuken 7B Instruct -> Marin 8B Instruct
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.

Specs

Specification
Released2025-09-012024-10-01
Context window128k4k
Parameters8B7B
ArchitectureDecoder OnlyDecoder Only
LicenseApache 2.0OSI-approvedOpen Weights
OpennessOpen sourceOpen weights
WeightsUnknownUnknown
CodeUnknownUnknown
Commercial useCommercial use: permitted-
Knowledge cutoff2024-072023-09

Pricing and availability

Pricing attributeMarin 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
Input price--
Output price--
Providers

Pricing not yet sourced for either model.

Capabilities

CapabilityMarin 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
VisionNoNo
MultimodalNoNo
ReasoningNoNo
JSON / Tool useNoNo
Structured outputsNoNo
Code executionNoNo
IDE integrationNoNo
Computer useNoNo
Parallel agentsNoNo

Benchmarks

No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.

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Last reviewed: 2026-09-08. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.