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Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is a language model from Meta released on Aug 31, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 60K token context window and up to 60K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

6 providers serve it, including Novita AI, Cloudflare Workers AI and Inference. The lowest input price is $0.01 per million tokens at Inference.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.027 / $0.201 per 1M
Context
60K
Max output
60K
Released
Aug 31, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2023
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.027 / 1M tokens
Output$0.201 / 1M tokens

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct providers

6 providers serve it, including Novita AI, Cloudflare Workers AI and Inference. The lowest input price is $0.01 per million tokens at Inference. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /MContextMax output
Novita AI$0.02$0.02–131K32K
Cloudflare Workers AI$0.027$0.201–60K60K
Inference$0.01$0.01–16K4K
Eden AI$0.027$0.201–60K32K
Kilo Gateway$0.027$0.201–60K54K
Pioneer$0.10$0.201$0.10131K60K

What Llama 3.2 1B Instruct costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct per month
$4.14
Without caching
$4.14
Per request
$0.0001

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Llama 3.2 1B Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Structured outputsstructured_outputs
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct questions

How much does the Llama 3.2 1B Instruct API cost?

$0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

60,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 60,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Which providers serve Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

6 providers serve it, including Novita AI, Cloudflare Workers AI and Inference. The lowest input price is $0.01 per million tokens at Inference. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.

Does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Llama 3.2 1B Instruct open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Llama 3.2 1B Instruct released?

Aug 31, 2024, with training data up to Dec 2023.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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