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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct: price, performance and context

Open Llama 3.2 3B Instruct by Meta costs $0.05 per 1M input and $0.33 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 5.7 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 203 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.05
Output / 1M tokens
$0.33
Context window
131.1K tokens
Max. output
118K tokens
Performance index
5.7 points · rank 203 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.133 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2023
In the catalog since
Sep 25, 2024
Capabilities
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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
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Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0030,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.00117,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.0061,800

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