TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.

TinyLlama · A · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
2,048
30d
944 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
—
30d
872 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 1.1 B 3.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 943,863 872,223
Downloads all time 51.4 M 50.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2023-12-30 2024-09-18
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.05
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.33
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.38
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 117,964
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 $0.38

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.5 M872 K
TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct A overtook B on 7 Nov

VRAM side by side

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

TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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