# meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b

Calls to the model meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b on Together AI stopped working on July 29, 2026.

Together AI retired the meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b model on July 29, 2026. Calls targeting this model fail since that date. The removal affects all requests specifying the model meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b.

## What to use instead

Update your requests to use meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Reference, which is recommended by Together AI as the replacement.

- API: Together AI (api.together.xyz)
- Model: meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: July 29, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Together AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/together-ai/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b/

## Together AI's words

> Removal date: 2026-07-29; Model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B; Suggested replacement: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Reference

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