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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Pricing

Meta · meta-llama-llama-3-2-1b-instruct

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Input / 1M tokens
$0.027
Output / 1M tokens
$0.201
Context window
60k tokens
80 pages of text
Max output
60k tokens

What it costs in practice

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Llama 3.2 1B Instruct preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

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What it excels at

Suitable for lightweight instruction following, simple classification, and on-device text generation where minimal compute and memory are required.

The business tradeoff

Limited reasoning depth and factual consistency restrict it to basic tasks; performance drops sharply on multi-step or knowledge-intensive queries.

Cheaper from Meta

Same tier from other providers

Head-to-head

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.