What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B?

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B and how large is it?

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B is developed by defog, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B?

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B by defog — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B
Author: defog

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B is an open-source language model by defog. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: cc-by-sa-4.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Code Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/defog/llama-3-sqlcoder-8b

Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Text to SQL

Additional Notes

A capable language model for text to SQL generation for Postgres, Redshift, and Snowflake that is on-par with the most capable generalist frontier models.

Input Output

Input Format:

<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Generate a SQL query to answer this question: `{user_question}` {instructions} DDL statements: {create_table_statements}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>

Output Format:

The following SQL query best answers the question `{user_question}`: ```sql ```

Performance Tips:

Set temperature to 0, and do not do sampling.

LLM Name	Llama 3 Sqlcoder 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/defog/llama-3-sqlcoder-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	defog
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-sa-4.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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