🪦 Dead
Meta Llama API
Product killed · Strategy Pivot · shut down July 6, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 1y 2m
- Cause of death
- Strategy Pivot
- Killed by
- Meta
- Type
- Service
Meta's own hosted home for Llama inference, unveiled at the first-ever LlamaCon in April 2025. Fourteen months later Meta retired the public preview and told developers to go rent Llama from AWS Bedrock, Together AI or Groq instead. Its replacement hosted service serves closed-weight models — cloud-only, no downloadable weights. The company that built its reputation on open models kept the API business and dropped the open part.