Marin 8B Base
Marin 8B Base is released 2025-05-15 in the Marin family with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 4k context window
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Marin
- Released
- 2025-05-15
- Context
- 4k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-07
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Marin 8B Base is an open-source foundation model from the Marin team at Stanford CRFM. Its model card describes a Llama 3 8B autoregressive architecture, English text-generation support, Apache 2.0 release, and roughly July 2024 knowledge cutoff.
Marin 8B Base is an open-source model in the Marin family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Marin 8B Base yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
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.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Marin 8B Base?
Marin 8B Base has a context window of 4k tokens.
When was Marin 8B Base released?
Marin 8B Base was released on 2025-05-15.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.