Is Groq Llama 3 8B deprecated?
No longer available. Groq shut Llama 3 8B down on 2025-08-30 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Llama 3 8B takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Groq's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- unknown
- Output price
- unknown
- Price band
- unknown
- Context window
- unknown
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- Llama 3.x Community License
- Model maker
- Meta
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Groq's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Llama 3 8B
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Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.22 in · $0.88 out / M tokens 256K context
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Qwen3 32B Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.15 in · $0.60 out / M tokens 32K context
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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.15 in · $0.60 out / M tokens 256K context
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.14 in · $1.20 out / M tokens 256K context
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GLM 4.7 Flash Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.07 in · $0.40 out / M tokens 203K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- console.groq.com https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Llama 3 8B deprecated?
- No longer available. Groq shut Llama 3 8B down on 2025-08-30 — calls to it fail.
- When does Llama 3 8B shut down?
- Groq has announced 2025-08-30 as the shutdown date for Llama 3 8B.
- What does Llama 3 8B cost?
- No public price is listed for Llama 3 8B in our dataset.
- What can I use instead of Llama 3 8B?
- Active alternatives include Amazon Bedrock Qwen3 235B A22B 2507, Amazon Bedrock Qwen3 32B, Amazon Bedrock Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct.