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Meta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.
Llama is not on our list for game development. Usable for general work, but first look at the options we recommend for game development.
- GDPR profileOur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data: EU hosting possible, no training on your data for business use, and self-hosting available. Caution applies to a model with a documented problem, such as an investigation by a regulator. How we measure
- GDPR: Caution
- QualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measure
- –Elo, independent
- Editorial scoreOur own assessment on 10 of suitability for professional work, price and privacy. This is a judgement, not a measurement; that is why it always sits alongside the Elo. How we measure
- 7,6
- Entry price
- Free
What Llama does in game development
- Asset creation: generate 3D models, textures, sprites, icons and UI from text, a sketch or your own art, in the style of the game
- Animation: have poses, in-betweens and physically accurate movements calculated, and convert video to motion capture
- Characters and dialogue: NPCs with backstory, memory and voice that respond to the player in real time
- Testing and prototyping: have AI agents playtest builds and report bugs, and build playable prototypes with an AI assistant in the engine
- Open weights, fully self-hostable
- Fine-tunable on your own data
- Very large context window (Scout 10M)
- GPU-efficient (Mixture-of-Experts)
Llama has a concrete GDPR concern. The Llama 4 Acceptable Use Policy prohibits the multimodal models for businesses headquartered in the EU. Dutch businesses therefore may not install the multimodal Llama 4 models themselves on licensing grounds. Weigh this heavily before deploying it in game development.
Confidentiality and GDPR
GDPR: CautionCheck per subscription what happens to your assets and prompts. Meshy and Convai may use your input and output to improve or train their services on standard plans (with Meshy you can opt out via support), Scenario does this on self-serve plans too and only contractually excludes it on Enterprise, and Ludo.ai reserves the right to train in its terms. On the free plan of Meshy, Meshy owns the output (use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution). Kaedim says it does not use your IP for training and is ISO 27001-certified, Cascadeur runs the AI tools locally and does not collect your animations as training data, and with Unity, training on your content is off by default. Most generative services store data in the US. Only put unreleased art, scripts or player data into a tool once a data processing agreement is in place, and for AI NPCs, check what the model might say to underage players.
Self-hosting gives full data control within your own EU infrastructure, a strong GDPR argument.
Prices
Other models for game development
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Gemini for game developmentGoogle · editorial 8.61527
ChatGPT for game developmentOpenAI · edition 8.91485
Le Chat (Mistral) for game developmentMistral AI · editorial 8.41426We do not know of a professional tool for game development that runs publicly on Llama.
Questions about Llama for game development
- Is Llama suitable for game development?
- Not specifically. Llama is not on our list for game development; it is broadly usable, but first look at the options we recommend for game development. Keep a professional in the loop for every deployment.
- May I put confidential data into Llama?
- Read per subscription what happens to your assets and prompts. Meshy and Convai may use your input and output to improve or train their services on regular subscriptions (with Meshy you can opt out via support), Scenario does so for self-serve subscriptions too and only contractually excludes it for Enterprise, and Ludo.ai reserves the right to train in its terms. On the free plan of Meshy, Meshy owns the output (use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution). Kaedim says it does not use your IP for training and is ISO 27001-certified, Cascadeur runs the AI tools locally and does not collect your animations as training data, and with Unity, training on your content is switched off by default. Most generative services store data in the US. Only put unreleased art, scripts or player data into a tool after a data processing agreement, and check for AI NPCs what the model may say to underage players. Self-hosting gives full data control within your own EU infrastructure, a strong GDPR argument.
- What does Llama cost?
- There is self-hosting (free), Meta AI ($0), Hosted API (third parties) (from ~$0.03 / 1M in). Check current prices on the official site.
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