meta-llama / text-generation updated 1 year ago

Llama-3.2-1B

Name: Llama-3.2-1B
Author: meta-llama

Params

1.2 B

Context

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Downloads 30d

1.8 M

Likes

2,519

Commercial use: conditional · llama3.2 Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS 8 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 10 days

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	2.5 GB	3.4 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/llama-3-2-1b
{
  "hf_id": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B",
  "params_b": 1.24,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "llama3.2", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 1756175,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 3.4 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:02:50Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters: 1.2 B
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: llama3.2
First seen on the Hub: 2024-09-18
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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