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Llama for government & municipalities

Meta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.

Recommended for government & municipalities

Llama is strong in open weights, fully self-hostable and fine-tunable on your own data; that suits drafting letters and decisions in plain language.

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
Full GDPR check

What Llama does in government & municipalities

Core tasks in government & municipalities
  • Drafting letters and decisions in plain language
  • Searching and redacting files and dossiers for Freedom of Information requests
  • Summarising council and policy documents
  • Answering citizen questions via channels
Where Llama is strong
  • Open weights, fully self-hostable
  • Fine-tunable on your own data
  • Very large context window (Scout 10M)
  • GPU-efficient (Mixture-of-Experts)

Llama raises a concrete GDPR point. The Llama 4 Acceptable Use Policy prohibits the multimodal models for businesses headquartered in the EU. Dutch companies may therefore not install the multimodal Llama 4 models themselves under the licence. Weigh this heavily before deploying it in government & municipalities.

Confidentiality and GDPR

GDPR: Caution

Governments fall under stricter rules (GDPR, Open Government Act, EU AI Act, archiving law) and algorithm registers. Choose demonstrably EU-hosted or on-premise solutions and register AI use.

Self-hosting gives full data control within your own EU infrastructure, a strong GDPR argument.

Rule of thumb Use the business variant with a data processing agreement, and keep a human in the loop for decisions that matter.
Caution 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 terms.

Prices

Self-hostingFreeOpen weights; infrastructure costs only
Meta AI$0Free in WhatsApp/Instagram/Messenger
Hosted API (third parties)from ~$0.03 / 1M inVia Bedrock, Azure, Together, Groq, Novita, varies widely by provider and model size; Meta's own Llama API retired July 2026

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Professional tools on Llama

We are not aware of any professional tool for government & municipalities that runs publicly on Llama.

Questions about Llama for government & municipalities

Is Llama suitable for government & municipalities?
Yes. Llama is strong in open weights, can be fully self-hosted and fine-tuned on your own data, which fits well with government & municipalities. Always assess the specific task and keep a professional in the loop.
May I put confidential data into Llama?
Governments fall under stricter rules (GDPR, Open Government Act (Woo), EU AI Act, archiving law) and algorithm registers. Choose demonstrably EU-hosted or on-premise solutions and register AI use. 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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