Is meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct deprecated?

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

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-04-14 — 155 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-04-14 — 155 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-04-14 days_remaining=-155 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/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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	azure_ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	128,000	2,048	$0.3	$0.61	2026-04-14

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm still list it] friendliai/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-09-14
info	deprecated	azure_ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: deprecation announced for 2026-06-13 (date already passed)	2026-08-21
info	deprecated	azure_ai/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: retires 2026-06-13 (69 days ago)	2026-08-21
info	deprecated	sambanova/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: retires 2026-04-14 (109 days ago)	2026-08-01
info	deprecated	sambanova/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: deprecation announced for 2026-04-14 (date already passed)	2026-06-26