# Meta Llama 3 (70B) — Retired — shutdown February 27, 2026

For Meta Llama 3 (70B), provider is Databricks; lifecycle status is Retired; shutdown / retirement date is February 27, 2026; 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.

- **Provider:** Databricks _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** Meta Llama 3 (70B) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Retired
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** February 27, 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Platform / deployment scope:** Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## 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. |

## Where each value comes from

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

### Shutdown / retirement date

> Provisioned throughput: February 27, 2026

### Recommended replacement

> Provisioned throughput: Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size.

## Sources disagree

More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from.

### Provider

learn.microsoft.com says provider is **Databricks**, as of 2026-09-15.

> 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. |

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy

docs.together.ai says provider is **Together AI**, as of 2026-09-15.

> | 2024-08-22                  | `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B`                       | No                                         |

Source: https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md


### Lifecycle status

learn.microsoft.com says lifecycle status is **Retired**, as of 2026-09-15.

> 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. |

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy

docs.together.ai says lifecycle status is **Removed**, as of 2026-09-15.

> | 2024-08-22                  | `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B`                       | No                                         |

Source: https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md


### Shutdown / retirement date

learn.microsoft.com says shutdown / retirement date is **February 27, 2026**, as of 2026-09-15.

> 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. |

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy

docs.together.ai says shutdown / retirement date is **2024-08-22**, as of 2026-09-15.

> | 2024-08-22                  | `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B`                       | No                                         |

Source: https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md


### Platform / deployment scope

learn.microsoft.com says platform / deployment scope is **Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput**, as of 2026-09-15.

> 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. |

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/machine-learning/retired-models-policy

docs.together.ai says platform / deployment scope is **Together AI serverless inference**, as of 2026-09-15.

> | 2024-08-22                  | `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B`                       | No                                         |

Source: https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations.md


## Source

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

Last verified: 2026-09-15. Review by: 2026-10-15.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).