Models/Meta/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Llama 3.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual large language model, optimized for advanced natural language processing tasks like dialogue generation, reasoning, and summarization. Designed with the latest transformer architecture, it...

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Identity

131,072Context in
131,072Context out
2024-09-25 (OpenRouter created 1727222400)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Aliases
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct, meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Hugging Face
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Modalities
text
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Open

Context window on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: 131,072 tokens.

Max completion tokens on that row: 131,072.

Input / output on that row: $0.05 / $0.33 per 1M tokens.

Architecture fields: text->text · Llama3 · llama3.

Hugging Face id on that row: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Llama 3.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual large language model, optimized for advanced natural language processing tasks like dialogue generation, reasoning, and summarization.

When you want the 2024-09-25 catalog SKU, not a later rename.

No independent row for this SKU

No independent board lists this exact SKU as of 2026-08-19.

Closest benchmarked sibling: Muse Spark 1.2, 55% ±2% Pass@1 at xhigh on the DeepSWE official board. That is a score for the sibling, not for this SKU.

Boards checked: DeepSWE official (2026-08-13), Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, vals.ai hero index. Every card that does carry a row is on the coding leaderboard.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

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Artificial Analysis

No Intelligence Index integer fetched for this identity. Chip omitted.

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Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • When you need a Continuum-hosted SKU from this lab, use the hosted card on this hub instead of this catalog row.
  • $0.05 in / $0.33 out per 1M on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row. Context 131,072 in / 131,072 out.
  • Need a denser published sibling on this hub? Llama 4 Maverick is the card already on the cluster.
  • When the job needs a published DeepSWE, Artificial Analysis, or vals.ai chip: this page does not invent one. Those boards did not list this exact SKU on 2026-08-19.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
llama3.2
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 3,212,749,824 stored tensors
Native precision
HF tensors BF16
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 12,853,298,144 bytes
HF created
2024-09-18T15:19:20.000Z
Official HF repo
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
HF downloads
1,102,483
HF likes
2,434

Official weights id on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct. Community GGUF is a quant, not a second Continuum card.

Hugging Face Hub API 2026-08-19: gated=manual.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

Hub file tree

Safetensor shards
2
Shard bytes
6,425,529,048 bytes
Other file bytes
6,436,988,999 bytes
Tree file count
16
Hub usedStorage
12,853,298,144 bytes

usedStorage and the sum of .safetensors sizes can differ (LFS pointers, non-shard files, duplicate copies). Cited separately. Source: recursive tree API, 2026-08-19.

PathBytes
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors4,965,799,096
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors1,459,729,952
original/consolidated.00.pth6,425,585,114
tokenizer.json9,085,657
original/tokenizer.model2,183,982
tokenizer_config.json54,528
README.md41,744
model.safetensors.index.json20,919
LICENSE.txt7,712
USE_POLICY.md6,021
.gitattributes1,519
config.json878
special_tokens_map.json296
original/orig_params.json220
original/params.json220
generation_config.json189

All 16 files the tree API returned are listed: every one of the 2 safetensor shards plus 14 other files. Files tab: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct/tree/main.

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Continuum serving

OpenRouter slug meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct on the 2026-08-19 catalog.

First party: https://www.llama.com/.

Not on the Continuum host list fetched 2026-08-19.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter 2026-08-19: $0.05 in / $0.33 out per 1M tokens. Context 131,072 in / 131,072 out.

No separate internal-reasoning price on that row.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Llama 3.2 3B Instruct.
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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OpenRouter id meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct; context 131072; created 1727222400; $0.05 / $0.33 per 1MOpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
OpenRouter id meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct, context 131,072OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 1,102,483Hugging Face API meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct2026-08-19
HF safetensors.total: 3,212,749,824 stored tensors; HF API usedStorage 12,853,298,144 bytes; created 2024-09-18T15:19:20.000Z; HF tensors BF16Hugging Face API meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct2026-08-19
2 safetensor shards; shard bytes 6,425,529,048; tree files 16Hugging Face tree API meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Meta's model family with Llama 3.1 70B Instruct.

FAQ

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct.

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