Kimi-K3-DSpark vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

RadixArk · A · Open weights
Params
2.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
3.7 M
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.1 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Kimi-K3-DSpark Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 2.3 B 3.2 B
Architecture DSparkDraftModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 80,000
Licence — llama3.2
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 3,725,706 1,112,418
Downloads all time 11.0 M 50.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-27 2024-09-18
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.051
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.34
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.39
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 5.7
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 72,000
API providers not on OpenRouter 2
Tool calling not on OpenRouter No
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct $0.39

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 84 days (2 Aug – 24 Oct)

6.6 M168 K
Kimi-K3-DSpark Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct A overtook B on 10 Aug

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 48.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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