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

For llama-3.1-70b-versatile, 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-versatile, 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-versatile _(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-versatile _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> January 24, 2025: Llama 3.1 70B and Llama 3.1 70B (Speculative Decoding) 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. To facilitate a smooth transition, we will maintain the current llama-3.1-70b-versatile and llama-3.1-70b-specdec model IDs until December 20, 2024. At that time, requests to these model IDs will automatically upgrade to their respective 3.3 versions. Beginning January 24, 2025, requests to both 3.1 model IDs will return errors. While these new models deliver improved quality, they may produce different responses than their predecessors. We recommend migrating to explicitly using llama-3.3-70b-versatile and llama-3.3-70b-specdec before December 20, 2024, for testing. Model ID | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | llama-3.1-70b-versatile | 01/24/25 | llama-3.3-70b-versatile |

## 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

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).