meta-llama / text-generation Open weights Also via API updated 2 years ago

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

Params
3.2 B
Context
—
Downloads 30d
872 K
Likes
2,974
Commercial use: conditional · llama3.2 Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS 8 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 106 days
▲ 642 K in the last 30 days (42.4%)
2.0 M872 K
Jul 28Sep 1Oct 6Nov 10

Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 6.4 GB 8.0 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/llama-3-2-3b-instruct
{
  "hf_id": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
  "params_b": 3.21,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "llama3.2", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 872223,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 8.0 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:02:52Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-11-10
$0.05
input / 1M
$0.33
output / 1M
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cached input / 1M
$0.38
1M in + 1M out
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
117,964 tokens
Providers
2
Cheapest provider
Parasail · $0.05 / $0.33
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
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✗ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters
3.2 B
Tensor type
BF16
Licence
llama3.2
First seen on the Hub
2024-09-18
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-07-28
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