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Best 8b Models in 2026 (Updated Weekly)

As of 2026-W40, the best 8b model is Llama 3.1 8B (Intelligence 6.9).
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1Llama 3.1 8B8.0B6.95.40.58M
2Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct GGUF7.6B5.8—0.30M
3Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct abliterated GGUF7.6B5.8—0.04M
4Qwen3 8B8.2B——11.69M
5Qwen2.5 7B Instruct7.6B——9.64M
6Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct8.0B——1.05M
7Meta Llama 3 8B8.0B——0.23M
8L3.2 Rogue Creative Instruct Uncensored Abliterated 7B GGUF7.5B——0.01M
9DeepHat V1 7B7.6B——0.01M
10CLM v0.1 8B———0.00M