Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs transformer-1.3B-100B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
3.7 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
fla-hub · B · Open weights
Params
1.4 B
Context
2,048
30d
166 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct transformer-1.3B-100B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 1.2 B 1.4 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM TransformerForCausalLM
Context length 60,000 2,048
Licence llama3.2 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 3,708,648 166,282
Downloads all time 109.1 M 429 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2024-04-01
API input price / 1M tokens $0.027 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.20 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.23 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 4.8 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 54,000 not on OpenRouter
API providers 1 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling No not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode No not on OpenRouter

API cost

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

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct $0.23

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

10.4 M162 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct transformer-1.3B-100B

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
transformer-1.3B-100B · fp16 3.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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