Pricing Plans (2026)
Free (Consumer) Free
Free
- Free chat at meta.ai and in WhatsApp, Messenger & Instagram
- Powered by Llama 4 Maverick
- Image generation and editing
- Voice conversation mode
- No subscription or account tier required
Free (Developer / API) Free
Free
- Llama API currently free of charge per Meta ToS (Apr 2025)
- Supports inference and fine-tuning of hosted Llama models
- Meta reserves right to introduce pricing in the future with advance notice
- OpenAI-compatible SDK
- Data stored separately from other Meta products
Open-Weight Download Free
Free
- Download model weights for free (Llama 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4 Scout, 4 Maverick)
- Run locally on your own hardware at zero licensing cost
- Fine-tune and distill models freely
- Community License Agreement required
- Compute/hardware costs are your own responsibility
Third-Party API (Pay-as-you-go)
$0.02/per 1M tokens (input, smallest model)
- Available via Together AI, Groq, Azure, AWS Bedrock, and others
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct from ~$0.02/1M input tokens
- Llama 4 Maverick from ~$0.15–$0.60/1M tokens (input/output)
- No upfront costs or commitments
- Pay only for what you use
Special Perks & Discounts
- Truly open-weight: download and self-host at no licensing cost
- Free consumer assistant across all major Meta social platforms
- Llama 4 is natively multimodal (text, image, video)
- Mixture-of-Experts architecture for efficient inference
- Broad third-party hosting ecosystem keeps API prices competitive
Verdict
Unmatched openness at zero cost. Llama is the most cost-accessible frontier AI available — free to use as a consumer, free via Meta's own API (currently), and free to download and self-host, with only compute costs to consider.
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Llama — Frequently asked
Does Llama have a free tier?
Yes — Llama offers a free tier you can use without paying.
How much does Llama cost?
Llama paid plans start at $0.02/month — see the full breakdown above.
Are there discounts or perks for Llama?
Truly open-weight: download and self-host at no licensing cost
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