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Meta Llama 2 70B / Meta-Llama-2-70B-Chat — Provisioned throughput — Retired — shutdown February 27, 2026

For Meta Llama 2 70B / Meta-Llama-2-70B-Chat, 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; serving offering or footprint is Provisioned throughput, recorded from its source on 2026-09-15.

Provider
Databricks our reading
Model ID / API name
Meta Llama 2 70B / Meta-Llama-2-70B-Chat verified
Serving offering or footprint
Provisioned throughput verified
Lifecycle status
Retired
Shutdown / retirement date
February 27, 2026 verified
Recommended replacement
Comparable model on the same offering, like Llama 3.2, 3.3, or 4 model of similar size verified
Platform / deployment scope
Databricks Foundation Model APIs — provisioned throughput our reading
Sourcelearn.microsoft.com
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What the source says

Meta Llama 2 70B / Meta-Llama-2-70B-Chat | Pay-per-token: October 30, 2024 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

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Serving offering or footprint and 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.

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

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