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

Calls to the model meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct on Novita AI stopped working on June 19, 2026.

Novita AI retired model meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct on June 19, 2026. Calls targeting this model fail since that date. The change impacts any requests relying on meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct across Novita AI's API.

## What to use instead

The recommended alternative is meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct, but it stops working on November 26, 2026. No replacement that holds is named yet.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: June 19, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct/

## Novita AI's words

> Deprecated model: meta-llama/llama-3-8b-instruct; Recommended alternative: meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-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