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Llama 3
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Llama 3

Meta's flagship open-weights LLM family.

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Best for engineering teams who want a top-tier model they can fine-tune or self-host.

At a glance

Pricing
open-source
Setup time
1 hour
Learning curve
moderate
Last verified
5/25/2026

What we love

  • ✓Most deployed OSS model in production
  • ✓Huge community + tooling
  • ✓Self-host on commodity GPUs (8B)

Where it falls short

  • −405B requires serious infra
  • −Some enterprise license restrictions (700M+ users)
  • −Quality below frontier on hardest tasks

Pricing

2 tiers

Open-source

$0

perpetual

  • ✓Self-host
  • ✓Community license

Cloud-hosted

Usage

per token

  • ✓AWS Bedrock
  • ✓Together.ai
  • ✓Groq

Overview

Llama 3 is Meta's open-weights LLM family — 8B, 70B, and 405B variants. The most-deployed open-source model in production, with massive ecosystem support and permissive license.

Key features

  • ●8B / 70B / 405B variants
  • ●Permissive license
  • ●Massive ecosystem
  • ●Long-context 128K
  • ●Strong reasoning

Best use cases

Self-hosted assistant

Run Llama 3 70B on-prem for sensitive workloads that can't go to OpenAI.

Fine-tuning base

Fine-tune Llama 3 8B on company data for cheap, domain-specific inference.

Integrations

AWS Bedrock
Together.ai
Groq
Hugging Face
Ollama
vLLM

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