Llama
by Meta
At a glance
Open-weight large language model family from Meta, spanning Llama 3 and Llama 4 generations across multiple sizes.
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- Licence
- Llama Community License
- Category
- Open Models
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2023-02
Overview
Llama is Meta's open-weight large language model family, spanning multiple sizes and generations since 2023. The current generation is Llama 4, listed alongside Llama 3 on Meta's model site, with natively multimodal variants and a broad self-hosting ecosystem. Weights are freely downloadable under Meta's community license. Llama also continues to power Meta's own Meta AI assistant, while Meta's newer Muse models sit alongside Llama for coding and agent workflows.
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Key features
- Open weights across Llama 3 and Llama 4 generations
- Natively multimodal Llama 4 variants
- Permissive community license for most commercial use
- Broad ecosystem support in tools like Ollama and vLLM
Use cases
- Self-hosted assistants and private deployments
- Fine-tuning for domain-specific applications
- Research on large language models
Pricing
Llama weights are free to download under the Llama community license; hosted inference is offered by many providers at usage-based prices.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-04
- Model family
- Llama
- Founded
- 2004
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/llama/
Selection profile
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- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
Derived from the record: category "open-models".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Model weights
Derived from record tag matching /^open-weights$/.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Not recorded
No platform support is stated in the record.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Local machine
Open-weight models are run by the user, not served by the vendor.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Partly
Local execution implies the model can run without a network once downloaded, but the vendor does not state this in the record.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Not recorded
The record does not state whether a public API exists.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- Llama Community License
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Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
No licence terms recorded, so commercial use cannot be asserted.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
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- Open source Free Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama open source?
Llama is released with open weights under Meta's community license, which permits most commercial use with some conditions.
Who develops Llama?
Llama is developed by Meta and has been released in successive generations since 2023, including Llama 4.
Can I run Llama locally?
Yes. Llama models run locally through tools such as Ollama, LM Studio, and vLLM, hardware permitting.
What does Llama's record not establish?
No documentation or pricing page is recorded for Llama, and the record does not confirm its licence terms or whether commercial use is permitted.
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