Is llama-3.1-8b-instruct deprecated?

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

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

NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm, openrouter. 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,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Vendor: meta. Tracked by 2 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	openrouter/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	131,072	117,964	$0.05	$0.08	—
openrouter	meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	131,072	117,964	$0.05	$0.08	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model openrouter/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct (131,072 ctx)	2026-09-06
low	modified	novita/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct: capabilities gained response_schema	2026-08-28
info	repriced	wandb/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: input_price_per_mtok $22,000.00/Mtok to $0.22/Mtok	2026-08-28
info	repriced	wandb/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: output_price_per_mtok $22,000.00/Mtok to $0.22/Mtok	2026-08-28
info	modified	[source artifact — 7 providers changed identically on the same day] meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct: max_output_tokens cut 131,072 to 117,964	2026-08-25