Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP8 Alternatives

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Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-FP8 has a Nerq Trust Score of 62 (C). A large language model for instruction following.

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	MycroftAI/mycroft-core	73	B	6.6k	Higher trust (73 vs 62); Much larger community
2	JaColBERTv2.5	63	C	22	Higher trust (63 vs 62)
3	Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1-GGUF	62	C	75	More stars
4	gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF	62	C	27	Similar scope
5	Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-AWQ-4bit	62	C	22	Similar scope
6	Ovis2-1B	60	C	97	Lower trust (60 vs 62); Much larger community
7	Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking-FP8	60	C	31	Lower trust (60 vs 62)
8	TheDrummer_Cydonia-24B-v4.3-GGUF	60	C	24	Lower trust (60 vs 62)
9	gpt-oss-vllm	60	C	1	Lower trust (60 vs 62)
10	Ovis2-34B	60	D	152	Lower trust (60 vs 62); Much larger community
11	Ovis2-4B	59	D	62	Lower trust (59 vs 62); More stars
12	Ovis1.6-Llama3.2-3B	59	D	49	Lower trust (59 vs 62); More stars
13	gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF	59	D	49	Lower trust (59 vs 62); More stars
14	QwQ-32B-GGUF	59	D	46	Lower trust (59 vs 62); More stars
15	Ministral-3-14B-Reasoning-2512-GGUF	59	D	37	Lower trust (59 vs 62)

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