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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct has no overall index value yet because there are too few independent benchmark results.

PopularityRank 466 of 785

33out of 100same as last month

based on search, usage and attention

Summary

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is the largest dense Instruct checkpoint in the Llama 3.1 family. The model card documents tool calling and open weights under the Llama 3.1 Community License.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct are the smaller dense tiers in the same family. The model card gives December 2023 as the knowledge cutoff for all three variants.

All benchmark results

Every published result with its source, test setup and comparison models.

Show all 68 published benchmark results

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Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

MMLU (CoT) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
88.6
Score
88.6
Metric
macro_avg/acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot CoT
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric macro_avg/acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
ARC-C (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
96.9
Score
96.9
Metric
acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
MultiPL-E HumanEval (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
75.2
Score
75.2
Metric
pass@1
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric pass@1.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
MultiPL-E MBPP (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
65.7
Score
65.7
Metric
pass@1
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric pass@1.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
MATH (CoT) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
73.8
Score
73.8
Metric
final_em
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot CoT
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric final_em.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
API-Bank (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
92
Score
92
Metric
acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
BFCL (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
88.5
Score
88.5
Metric
acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Gorilla Benchmark API Bench (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
35.3
Score
35.3
Metric
acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Nexus (0-shot) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
58.7
Score
58.7
Metric
macro_avg/acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric macro_avg/acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Multilingual MGSM (CoT) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
91.6
Score
91.6
Metric
em
Unit
%
Benchmark version
0-shot CoT
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned table; 0 shots; metric em.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Multilingual MMLU (Portuguese) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
84.95
Score
84.95
Metric
macro_avg/acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
5-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned multilingual table; MMLU, 5-shot, macro_avg/acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Multilingual MMLU (Spanish) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
85.08
Score
85.08
Metric
macro_avg/acc
Unit
%
Benchmark version
5-shot
Direction
Higher is better
Source type
vendor-reported
Evaluator
Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Vendor-reported result. Exact Llama 3.1 405B Instruct column in Meta's instruction-tuned multilingual table; MMLU, 5-shot, macro_avg/acc.
Context
The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.
Source Meta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd)

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Popularity compared

How often the model is searched for, used and mentioned, compared with every model of its category.

Popularity index

The 100 most popular models of this category, 0 to 100, higher is more popular

20 of 101 models

As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index

Over time

Weekly values from October 18, 2026 to November 7, 2026

Llama 3.1 405B InstructAREX-2 33Command A Plus 33Nex-N2-mini 33Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 33

Method changes in the timeline, a jump at these points is no market event:

  1. 1November 1, 2026: Value only with search or usage data, 30-day attention

What is gaining popularity right now, across models, vendors, harnesses and AI subscriptions, is collected in All AI trends.

All specifications

Architecture

Parameters
405 billion
Source: Parameters
Knowledge cutoff
December 2023
Source: Knowledge cutoff

Input and output

Context window
131,072 tokens
Source: Context window
Inputs
Text
Source: Inputs
Outputs
Text
Source: Outputs
Tool calling
Yes
Source: Tool calling

Watermarking and provenance

AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.

AI watermarking
Unknown
no source
Watermarking technique
Not known
no source

Licence and access

Weights
Open weights
Source: Weights
License
Llama 3.1 Community
Source: License

Frequently asked questions about Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

What is the knowledge cutoff of Llama 3.1 405B Instruct?

December 2023, according to Meta. That is 7 months before release.

Stated by Meta

How large is the context window of Llama 3.1 405B Instruct?

131,072 tokens. That is how much text Llama 3.1 405B Instruct reads at once, about 200 A4 pages.

Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis

Context windowTokens the model reads at once · higher is better
GLM-5.1200K
DeepSeek-V3 0324164K
Llama 3.1 405B InstructRank 94 of 103131K
GLM-4.5131K
GPT OSS 120B131K
DeepSeek-V3.2128K
DeepSeek-R1128K

Can I run Llama 3.1 405B Instruct locally?

Yes, the weights are open. With 405B parameters it needs a lot of memory, more a server than a laptop.

Stated by Meta

Open weights
yes
License
Llama 3.1 Community
Parameters
405B
active per token
n/a

Sources and data date

Show all 24 sources

Benchmark sources at a glance

Which independent evaluators tested this model. This is coverage, not a quality ranking.

EvaluatorTest seriesComposite indicesRecorded active measurements
Scale AI Evals001

Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values. 1 measurements are not yet assigned to a test series.

TypeEvidence and data date
Input

Documented modalities.

Output

Documented modalities.

Research statusResearch date October 15, 2026. 18 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not published

score-units-and-snapshot-dates

Note

Meta's table names metric definitions and shots but omits explicit score units and most evaluation dates; raw numeric values are retained.

Not published

per-row-sample-count-and-evaluation-date

Note

The card does not publish per-row sample counts, confidence intervals, or measurement dates.

Additional sourceMeta Llama 3.1 model card (commit e2e67cd) (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceSciCode: A Research Coding Benchmark Curated by Scientists (retrieved October 17, 2026)
Additional sourceThe Invalsi Benchmark paper, abstract (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourceThis House Debates AI, LREC 2026 paper abstract (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourcePrompting language influences diagnostic reasoning and accuracy of large language models (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourcePersianMedQA: Evaluating Large Language Models on a Persian-English Bilingual Medical Question Answering Benchmark (retrieved October 19, 2026)
Additional sourceOracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI performance benchmarks (retrieved October 20, 2026)
Additional sourceMeta Llama model card (retrieved October 23, 2026)
Additional sourceMERA Text (retrieved October 23, 2026)
Additional sourceBigCodeBench official leaderboard (retrieved October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceScale SWE-Bench Pro public leaderboard (retrieved October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 28, 2026)123456
Additional sourceOpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceVercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceOllama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional sourceReplicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional sourceGoogle Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional sourceCreative Commons Attribution 4.0