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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 building management & installations. Usable for general work, but first look at the options we recommend for building management & installations.
- 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 building management & installations
- Optimise climate, heating and ventilation per zone based on use and weather forecasts
- Monitor energy consumption and automatically flag deviations
- Predictive maintenance on installations: boilers, air handling, cooling and lifts
- Draw up condition surveys, multi-year maintenance plans and sustainability reports
- 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 under the licence. Weigh this heavily before deploying it in building management & installations.
Confidentiality and GDPR
GDPR: CautionKeep two things in view at once. First, privacy: occupancy, badge and booking data can often be traced back to individual employees. Measure at zone or room level, not per person, and involve the works council when introducing it, a system that records staff presence falls under article 27 of the Dutch Works Councils Act (WOR) on staff monitoring systems. Second, security: an AI layer that is allowed to control your BMS becomes part of your operational technology. Never expose that connection unsecured to the internet, work with read-only access until you trust the behaviour, and record who can intervene if the control goes wrong, in care buildings, laboratories and server rooms, a wrong setpoint can cause immediate damage. If you fall under NIS2, there are explicit requirements for supplier management and incident reporting. Also agree a data processing agreement and EU hosting with every supplier, and check energy-saving claims against your own meter data rather than the brochure.
Self-hosting gives full data control within your own EU infrastructure, a strong GDPR argument.
Prices
Other models for building management & installations
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Questions about Llama for building management & installations
- Is Llama suitable for building management & installations?
- Not specifically. Llama is not on our list for building management & installations; it is broadly usable, but first look at the options we recommend for building management & installations. Keep a professional in the loop for every use.
- May I put confidential data into Llama?
- Keep two things in view at once. First, privacy: occupancy, badge and booking data are often traceable to individual employees. Measure at zone or room level rather than per person, and involve the works council when introducing it, a system that registers staff presence falls under article 27 of the Dutch Works Councils Act (personnel monitoring systems). Second, security: an AI layer that may control your building management system becomes part of your operational technology. Never expose that connection unsecured to the internet, work with read-only access while you do not yet trust its behaviour, and record who can intervene if the arrangement goes wrong, in care buildings, laboratories and server rooms, a wrong setpoint can cause immediate damage. If you fall under NIS2, explicit requirements apply to supplier management and incident reporting. Also record a data processing agreement and EU hosting with every supplier, and check energy-saving claims against your own meter data rather than the brochure. 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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