# llama-3.1-70b-specdec — End-of-Life — shutdown 01/24/25

For llama-3.1-70b-specdec, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is December 6, 2024; shutdown / retirement date is 01/24/25; recommended replacement is llama-3.3-70b-specdec, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** llama-3.1-70b-specdec _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Deprecation announced:** December 6, 2024 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 01/24/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** llama-3.3-70b-specdec _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | llama-3.1-70b-specdec   | 01/24/25      | llama-3.3-70b-specdec            |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Deprecation announced

> On December 6, 2024, in partnership with Meta, we released llama-3.3-70b-versatile and llama-3.3-70b-specdec, and notified users that we would deprecate their 3.1 counterparts in favor of hosting Llama 3.3 with significant quality improvements for a better experience.

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
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