Using Llama 3.2 1B Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Llama 3.2 · AI at Meta

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Llama 3.2 1B Instruct through model ID meta/llama-3.2-1b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call meta/llama-3.2-1b — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $0.10/1M input, $0.10/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

meta/llama-3.2-1b

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta/llama-3.2-1b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.10
Output tokens	$0.10

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

About Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

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.

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Model Specs

Released2024-09-25

Parameters1.23B

Context128k

ArchitectureDecoder Only

Knowledge cutoff2023-12

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