Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs phi-2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

Params

1.2 B

Context

—

30d

10.4 M

llama3.2 licence · conditional

microsoft · B

Params

2.8 B

Context

2,048

30d

771 K

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	phi-2
Parameters	1.2 B	2.8 B
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	PhiForCausalLM
Context length	—	2,048
Licence	llama3.2	mit
Commercial use	Conditional	Allowed
Languages	8	1
Downloads 30d	10,412,058	771,396
Downloads all time	92.8 M	21.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-18	2023-12-13

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.4 M738 K

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct phi-2

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

phi-2 · fp16 7.0 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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