Meta Llama 3 (70B) — Retired or Removed — shutdown February 27, 2026 or 2024-08-22 — sources disagree

For Meta Llama 3 (70B), provider is Databricks; lifecycle status is disputed: Retired per learn.microsoft.com, Removed per docs.together.ai; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: February 27, 2026 per learn.microsoft.com, 2024-08-22 per docs.together.ai; recommended replacement is Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size; platform / deployment scope is Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput, recorded from its source on 2026-09-15; source re-checked 2026-11-11.

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

| Meta Llama 3 (70B) | **Pay-per-token:** July 23, 2024 (Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct); December 11, 2024 (Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)**Provisioned throughput:** February 27, 2026 | **Pay-per-token:** Meta-Llama-4-Maverick**Provisioned throughput:** Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size. |

— learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-09-15

Where each value comes from

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

— all from learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-09-15

Where the other sources' values come from

These values were taken from a passage elsewhere on the other source's page, not from the row quoted with it above.

Sources

• learn.microsoft.comhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy
• docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md
• docs.together.aihttps://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations

Last verified against source: 2026-11-11. Due for re-check by 2026-12-11. This page as Markdown · OKF bundle · full dataset as JSON.