Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Llama 3.2
- Released
- 2024-09-25
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 1.23B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 3 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 7 routes · AWS Bedrock
About
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is Meta's Llama 3.2 model. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting and scores 25.6 on GPQA.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ B1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 7Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.027 | $0.200 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(3)
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint
RouterNVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(6)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 25.6 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HellaSwag | 78.9 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HumanEval | 28.1 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 49.3 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| BFCL | 10.8 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 20.0 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(2)
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Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 7 routes · AWS Bedrock