# meta-llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Calls to the model meta-llama-3.2-3b-instruct on SambaNova Cloud stopped working on June 25, 2025.

On June 25, 2025, SambaNova Cloud will retire model meta-llama-3.2-3b-instruct. Requests using this model will fail after that date.

## What to use instead

Move to meta-llama-3.3-70b-instruct. The previously recommended meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct stopped working on April 14, 2026.

- API: SambaNova Cloud (api.sambanova.ai)
- Model: meta-llama-3.2-3b-instruct
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: June 25, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model meta-llama-3.2-3b-instruct`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/deprecations)
- Verified: October 26, 2026, against SambaNova Cloud's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/sambanova-cloud/meta-llama-3.2-3b-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