Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is a Meta model released on 25 Sept 2024. Its API price is $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens. Its context window is 131.1K tokens. It ranks #372 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1167, read 1 Nov 2026). Source: ai.meta.com.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is a model from Meta, released in September 2024. It is listed at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output, with a context window of 131.1K tokens. On LMArena's text leaderboard it scores 1167 Elo (rank 372). Its strongest category there is expert tasks, at 341st, and its weakest is coding, at 378th. The weights are available under the Llama 3.2 licence, so it can be self-hosted. Figures here come from LMArena’s published dataset rather than from the vendor’s own documentation.
Full Specifications
$0.05 / $0.33 per million tokens | |
|---|---|
| Identity | |
| Developer | Meta |
| Released | Sep 2024 |
| Licence | Llama 3.2 |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $0.120 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.050 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.330 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 131.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1167 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 372 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 9725 |