Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct
Released
2025-01-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-30
Status
Researched 182d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditional
Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 4k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
- Family
- Swallow
- Released
- 2025-01-01
- Context
- 4k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Training
- Pretrained
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Cheapest of 1 route · NVIDIA NIM
About
Japanese bilingual model from Institute of Science Tokyo, fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 8B.
Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct is an open-weight model in the Swallow family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Comparison and alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct?
Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct has a context window of 4k tokens.
When was Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct released?
Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct was released on 2025-01-01.
Which providers offer Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct?
Llama 3.1 Swallow 8B Instruct is available from 1 provider: NVIDIA NIM.
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · NVIDIA NIM