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Atria Dawn Preview vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -2.6.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Meta · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -2.6, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.02/M input and $0.03/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
-2.6
#339
Reasoning
50.5
#12
-3.6
#337
Coding
36.2
#22
-2.3
#249
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
— / M
$0.02 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.03 / M
Context window
—
131,072

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Tool use
31.1#12
17.0#79
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 18 for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Llama 3.1 8B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

736.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 736.0B more parameters than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, making it 9200.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
8.0B
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Llama 3.1 8B Instruct specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Llama 3.1 8B Instruct specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Input131,072 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Tue Sep 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Llama 3.1 8B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Atria Dawn Preview is 26 months newer than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

4 days ago

2.1yr newer
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

2.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 8B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Dec 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -2.6. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is made by Meta. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Llama 3.1 8B Instruct in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct scores GSM-8K (CoT): 84.5%, ARC-C: 83.4%, API-Bank: 82.6%, IFEval: 80.4%, BFCL: 76.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct supports 131K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs -2.6), licensing (MIT vs Llama 3.1 Community License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is developed by Meta.

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