Product overview — LLM Providers High

Meta Llama

Open-weight model family enabling self-hosting and vendor flexibility; best when deployment control and cost governance outweigh managed convenience.

Sources linked — see verification below.

Freshness & verification

Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-01-14 1 source linked

Who is this best for?

This is the fastest way to decide whether Meta Llama is in the right neighborhood.

Best for
  • Teams with strict deployment constraints (on-prem/VPC-only) or strong data-control requirements
  • Organizations that can own inference ops and want vendor flexibility
  • Cost-sensitive workloads where infra optimization is part of the strategy
  • Products that benefit from domain adaptation and controlled deployments
Who should avoid
  • You want the fastest path to production without infra ownership
  • You can’t invest in evaluation, monitoring, and safety guardrails
  • Your workload needs maximum out-of-the-box capability with minimal tuning

Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

  1. https://www.llama.com/ ↗