Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Name: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Author: AI at Meta

Released

2024-09-25

Last refreshed

2026-10-12

Status

Researched 150d ago

Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

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Specifications

Family: Llama 3.2
Released: 2024-09-25
Context: 128K
Parameters: 3.21B
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

Created by

AI at Meta

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Founded 2013

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.050

Input / 1M

$0.030

Cheapest of 7 routes · Novita AI

Providers(7)

Cloudflare Workers AI OpenRouter Fireworks AI NVIDIA NIM AWS Bedrock Vercel AI Gateway Novita AI

View 7 provider routes

About

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is Meta's Llama 3.2 model. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting and scores 34.7 on MMLU PRO.

Top use-case fit

Classification

Q/$ A

Providers(7)

Compare all 7

Compare API pricing across 7 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Novita AI	$0.030	$0.050	Serverless
Fireworks AI	$0.100	$0.100	Serverless
AWS Bedrock	$0.150	$0.150	Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway	$0.150	$0.150	Serverless
OpenRouter	$0.050	$0.330	Serverless
Cloudflare Workers AI	$0.051	$0.335	Serverless
NVIDIA NIM	-	-	ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(3)

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified 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.

PassthroughFireworks AI

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS 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.

PassthroughAWS Bedrock

NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint

Router

NVIDIA'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.

Free OSSNVIDIA NIM

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

MMLU PRORank 118 of 119

Gemini 3 Pro

91.8

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

91.0

Qwen3.7-Max

89.6

Claude Opus 4.6

89.1

Llama 3.2 3B Instructcurrent

34.7

Benchmark scores(2)

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.