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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct: price, performance and context

Open Llama 3.2 1B Instruct by Meta costs $0.027 per 1M input and $0.201 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 60K tokens in one request (≈ 180 pages of text) and scores 4.8 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 211 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · meta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.027
Output / 1M tokens
$0.201
Context window
60K tokens
Max. output
54K tokens
Performance index
4.8 points · rank 211 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.077 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2023
In the catalog since
Sep 25, 2024
Capabilities
Text

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0092,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00115,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0053,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0029,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go–does not fit the context

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