Llama 3.3 70B
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Gated download (accept Meta's licence and share contact details on Hugging Face), text-only, and its knowledge stops at December 2023.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 70B dense, text-only, 128K-token context. Licence cap: companies with over 700M monthly active users need a separate licence from Meta. |
| Modality | text, code |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Llama 3.3 Community License |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens |
| Model id | meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Llama 3.3 70B
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Llama 3.3 Community License.
Quickstart
vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct # then: curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Llama 3.3 70B" (meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Gated download (accept Meta's licence and share contact details on Hugging Face), text-only, and its knowledge stops at December 2023.
- Llama 3.3 Community License (shown on the gated HF repo): commercial use allowed; if your products had over 700 million monthly active users on the release date you must request a licence from Meta; distributing the…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Llama 3.3 70B free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Llama 3.3 Community License. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Llama 3.3 70B commercially?
Yes, under Llama 3.3 Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Llama 3.3 70B?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Llama 3.3 Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, checked 8 Oct 2026.