Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
Analysis Summary
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window.
Editorial notes
Llama 3.2 3B (free) is a very small model with an intelligence index of 9.7 and limited benchmark performance across reasoning and coding, best suited to simple classification or extraction tasks.
Assessed May 28, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) compares
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) ranks #312 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #166 of 282 for agentic tasks. Its 131K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
About Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
Llama 3.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual large language model, optimized for advanced natural language processing tasks like dialogue generation, reasoning, and summarization. Designed with the latest transformer architecture, it..
Architecture Detail
| Instruct Type | llama3 |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct:free
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| Provider | meta-llama |
| Model Family | Llama 3 |
| Release Date | September 25, 2024 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Status | Active |
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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
How much does Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) cost?
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
What is the context window of Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)?
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
Who created Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)?
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) is developed by Meta and was released on September 25, 2024.
