LLM Reference

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Released
2024-09-25
Last refreshed
2026-05-22
Status
Researched 16d ago
Open SourceCodingRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

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
Specifications
Family
Llama 3.2
Released
2024-09-25
Context
128k
Parameters
1.23B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by
AI at MetaAI at Meta

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.100
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 7 routes · AWS Bedrock

Providers(7)
Cloudflare Workers AIOpenRouterFireworks AINVIDIA NIMBitdeer AIAWS BedrockVercel AI Gateway
View 7 provider routes

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.

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is an open-source model in the Llama 3.2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Cloudflare Workers AI, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, and 4 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.027 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 25.6, HellaSwag 78.9, and HumanEval 28.1.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Q/$ B

1 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 7

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
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

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

HumanEvalRank 85 of 86
o3
96.7
Grok-3
94.5
GPT-5.5
94.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
93.1
Llama 3.2 1B Instructcurrent
28.1

Benchmark scores(6)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
Google-Proof Q&A25.6diamondhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
HellaSwag78.910-shothttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
HumanEval28.1pass@1https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
Massive Multitask Language Understanding49.35-shothttps://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard
BFCL10.8—https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
MMLU PRO20.0—https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Rankings & picks(10)

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