Stable LM 3B
Stable LM 3B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- StableLM
- Released
- 2023-04-20
- Parameters
- 3B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Stability AI Community LicenseCommercial use with conditions
- Training
- finetuned
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API
About
Stable LM 3B is a 3-billion parameter language model from Stability AI, designed for efficient operation on devices like smartphones and laptops. This compact model reduces operating costs and environmental impact while achieving performance comparable to larger open-source models. Its decoder-only transformer architecture features Rotary Position Embeddings and LayerNorm with learned bias terms. Trained on 1 trillion tokens from diverse sources, the model delivers strong conversational abilities but may require fine-tuning and safety testing for specific applications. An instruction-fine-tuned version was planned, emphasizing its potential for safe deployment.
Stable LM 3B is an open-weight model in the StableLM family. This page tracks provider routes through Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Stable LM 3B yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $0.050 | $0.250 | Serverless |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API