Is llama-3.1-8b-instant deprecated?

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

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-08-16 — 31 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-08-16 — 31 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-08-16 days_remaining=-31 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

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	groq/llama-3.1-8b-instant	131,072	131,072	$0.05	$0.08	2026-08-16

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
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