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Meta AI's open-source model family: Llama 4 multimodal, free, self-hostable.
Ease of Use
Llama is the open-source language-model family from Meta AI, in 2026 the foundation of most open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face, Together, Groq, Cerebras). Models are downloadable for free under a license that permits commercial use up to 700M MAU.
The Llama 4 lineup (early 2026) covers Scout (fast, 17B active), Maverick (400B parameters, multimodal), and Behemoth (2T parameters in preview). All models natively support multimodal (text + image) and a 10M-token context.
Llama is used self-hosted (Ollama, vLLM) for data sovereignty, or via Groq/Together hosts for ultra-fast inference (1000+ tokens/s).
Features
Key features
- Open weights under Meta's license: commercial use OK.
- Multi-size: 8B (laptop), 70B (workstation), 405B (cluster).
- Native multimodal (Llama 4): text + image.
- 10M-token context on 4.x models.
- Easy self-hosting via Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp.
- Ultra-fast hosts: Groq, Cerebras, Together.