LLM Reference

Marin 8B Instruct

Released
2025-09-01
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 44d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: unknownLong context

Marin 8B Instruct is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating long context
  • Workloads that can use a 128k 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
Marin
Released
2025-09-01
Context
128k
Parameters
8B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-07
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
Training
Pretrained
Created by
MarinMarin

Marin is an open-source initiative by the Marin Community in close collaboration with Stanford University's Center for R

Stanford, California, United States
Founded 2024
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · NVIDIA NIM

Providers(1)
NVIDIA NIM
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About

Marin 8B instruction-tuned model from Stanford CRFM focused on interpretability.

Marin 8B Instruct is an open-weight model in the Marin family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Marin 8B Instruct yet.

Top use-case fit

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
NVIDIA NIM--
ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(1)

NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint

Router

NVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.

Free OSSNVIDIA NIM

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

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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Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Marin 8B Instruct?

Marin 8B Instruct has a context window of 128k tokens.

When was Marin 8B Instruct released?

Marin 8B Instruct was released on 2025-09-01.

Which providers offer Marin 8B Instruct?

Marin 8B Instruct is available from 1 provider: NVIDIA NIM.