# meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct

Calls to the model meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct on Novita AI stopped working on June 19, 2026.

Calls to model meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct fail since June 19, 2026. Novita AI retired the model on that date, causing subsequent requests to fail rather than redirect.

## What to use instead

The recommended alternative meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct stops working on November 26, 2026. No permanent replacement has been named yet.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: June 19, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct/

## Novita AI's words

> Deprecated model: meta-llama/llama-3-70b-instruct; Recommended alternative: meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent