llama-guard-3-8b — End-of-Life — shutdown 06/06/25
For llama-guard-3-8b, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is May 9, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 06/06/25; recommended replacement is meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b, recorded from its source on 2026-09-21; source re-checked 2026-11-11.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Model ID / API name
- llama-guard-3-8b verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life
- Deprecation announced
- May 9, 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 06/06/25 verified
- Recommended replacement
- meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
| llama-guard-3-8b | 06/06/25 | meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on May 9, 2025, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of `llama-guard-3-8b` in favor of `meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b`
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-21
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
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