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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
meta·meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct·GA·Open weights·llama series
Open Llama instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and coding
At a glance
Reference price$0.10 / $0.335 per 1M
Cache read $0.10 · Pioneer
Lowest paid$0.02 / $0.02
Inference Gateway · 5× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context131,072
⚠ Providers report 16,000–131,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit80,000
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2023-12
Released / updated2024-09-25 / 2025-01-01
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 9 providers8 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | First-party | Free | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,000 | ||
| Inference | Gateway | $0.02 | $0.02 | — | — | 16,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| NovitaAI | Gateway | $0.03 | $0.05 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.03 | $0.05 | — | — | 32,768 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.031 | $0.049 | $0.015 | — | 131,072 | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.05 | $0.33 | — | — | 131,072 | 131,072 | |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Cloud | $0.051 | $0.335 | — | — | 80,000 ⚠ | 80,000 | |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.051 | $0.335 | — | — | 80,000 ⚠ | 80,000 | |
| Pioneer meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.335 | $0.10 | $0.10 | 131,072 | 80,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Inference$5.00
2NanoGPT$6.75
3NovitaAI$8.50
4DevPass (LLM Gateway)$8.50
5OpenRouter$26.50
6Cloudflare Workers AI$26.93
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended