Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Review
The paid version of Meta's Llama 3.2 3B Instruct offers a large context window at low cost but lacks benchmark data for this specific variant — suitable only for simple, low-stakes tasks where a tiny model suffices.
Assessment date: April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Llama3 |
| Instruct Type | llama3 |
| Parameters | 3B |
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct
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| Provider | meta-llama |
| Model Family | Llama 3 |
| Release Date | September 25, 2024 |
| Context Length | 80,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.05 | $0.000051 |
| Output | $0.34 | $0.000340 |
Live Performance
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