Free Llama 4 Model Downloads for Self-Hosting
Meta Platforms develops Llama, a family of downloadable language and multimodal AI models intended for developers, researchers, and businesses. Current official Llama documentation lists Llama 4 Scout and Maverick as downloadable models and provides resources for local deployment, customization, and integrations. Llama uses a custom community license with usage and commercial restrictions, so "open-weight" is more precise than treating the weights as an unrestricted free API.
Offer Details
Free local-hosted model usage
Meta currently makes Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick weights available for download.
This is an open-weight/self-hosting offer, not a promise of free hosted inference: hardware, electricity, or third-party cloud/API charges are separate.
Meta's official repository notes that full-precision Llama 4 inference is hardware-intensive; Scout can be reduced to a single 80GB GPU using Int4 quantization.
How to Claim this Deal
- Go to Meta's Llama download page (www.llama.com), fill details and select the Llama model you want.
- Read and accept the applicable Llama license and submit the access request.
- After approval, Meta sends a signed download URL by email. Meta's official repository says these signed links expire after 24 hours and are also subject to a download limit.
- Install the official CLI with pip install llama-models, run llama-model list, then use llama-model download --source meta --model-id CHOSEN_MODEL_ID and enter the signed URL when prompted.
- You can also request access through Meta's official Hugging Face repositories instead of downloading directly from Meta.
Key Benefits
- Download Llama 4 Scout and Maverick model weights for self-hosted deployment.
- Royalty-free limited license for permitted use, modification, reproduction, and distribution.
- Llama 4 Scout supports up to a 10M-token context window; Maverick supports up to 1M, with both supporting text and image input.
- No mandatory Meta-hosted API is required to run downloaded weights; users can operate them on their own compatible infrastructure.
Deal link: Open provider offer →
Eligibility
The Llama 4 license grants a royalty-free limited license for permitted use, modification, reproduction, and distribution, so there is no model-license fee for ordinary eligible users.
- No credit card required
- You must accept and comply with the Llama 4 Community License and Acceptable Use Policy.
- Direct Meta downloads require an approved access request before the signed download URL is issued.
- If your products or services had more than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month on Llama 4's release date, Meta requires a separate license.
- Meta's Llama 4 Acceptable Use Policy says license rights for Llama 4 multimodal models are not granted to individuals domiciled in, or companies with their principal place of business in, the European Union; the restriction does not apply to end users of products incorporating those models.
Terms & Conditions ↗ (github.com)
Terms & Important Notes
Provider terms: github.com