Is llama-3.1-8b-instant deprecated?

Q: Is llama-3.1-8b-instant deprecated?

No — still supported. Listed by litellm. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

state=alive sunset=none days_remaining=n/a severity=low sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-10-31 05:09Z

meta/llama-3.1-8b-instant

Vendor: meta. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	inferenceapis/llama-3.1-8b-instant	131,072	131,072	$0.2	$0.5	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model inferenceapis/llama-3.1-8b-instant (131,072 ctx)	2026-10-15
critical	deprecated	groq/llama-3.1-8b-instant: deprecation announced for 2026-08-16 — in 3 days	2026-08-13
low	modified	groq/llama-3.1-8b-instant: context_tokens raised 128,000 to 131,072	2026-08-13
low	modified	groq/llama-3.1-8b-instant: max_output_tokens raised 8,192 to 131,072	2026-08-13
critical	deprecated	groq/llama-3.1-8b-instant: retires 2026-08-16 (in 3 days)	2026-08-13