LLM Reference

ZAYA1-8B

Released
2026-05-06
Last refreshed
2026-05-12
Status
Researched 45d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

ZAYA1-8B is a released general LLM work model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 33k 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
Specifications
Family
ZAYA1
Released
2026-05-06
Context
33k
Parameters
8.4B
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Specialization
reasoning
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Created by

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Palo Alto, California, United States
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

ZAYA1-8B is a small mixture-of-experts (MoE) reasoning model from Zyphra with 8.4B total parameters and approximately 760M active parameters per token. Trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X hardware (1,024 GPUs), it incorporates three architectural innovations: Compressed Convolutional Attention (CCA), a novel MLP-based expert router, and learned residual scaling. Post-training uses a four-stage reinforcement learning cascade covering reasoning warmup, adaptive curriculum, large-scale math/code RL with test-time compute traces, and behavioral RL for instruction following. On extended compute (Markovian RSA), it approaches or exceeds frontier models such as DeepSeek-V3.2 and GPT-OSS-120B on mathematics benchmarks. Released under Apache 2.0 as open weights on Hugging Face and as a free serverless endpoint on Zyphra Cloud.

ZAYA1-8B is an open-source model in the ZAYA1 family. The structured metadata tracks a 33k-token context window and reasoning. No headline benchmark score is tracked for ZAYA1-8B 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

Reasoning

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.