# llama-3.2-11b-text-preview — End-of-Life — shutdown 10/28/24

For llama-3.2-11b-text-preview, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; shutdown / retirement date is 10/28/24; recommended replacement is llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview llama-3.1-8b-instant (text-only workloads), recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** llama-3.2-11b-text-preview _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 10/28/24 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview llama-3.1-8b-instant (text-only workloads) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | llama-3.2-11b-text-preview | 10/28/24      | llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview llama-3.1-8b-instant (text-only workloads) |

## Source

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