Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct vs GPT-3.5 Turbo
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.1 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.50
Output / 1M
$1.50
AA index
5.5
proprietary · 16.4K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | GPT-3.5 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 3.2 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 80,000 | 16,385 |
| Licence | llama3.2 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Per API terms |
| Languages | 8 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 1,112,418 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 50.4 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-18 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.051 | $0.50 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.34 | $1.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.39 | $2.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 5.7 | 5.5 |
| AA Coding Index | — | 10.7 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 72,000 | 4,096 |
| API providers | 2 | 1 |
| Tool calling | No | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
$0.39
GPT-3.5 Turbo
$2.00
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct is 5.2× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct · fp16
8.0 GB / 24 GB