Meta · Open weights
Llama 3.2 3b Instruct
Small model optimized for advanced natural language processing tasks like dialogue generation, reasoning, and summarization
- PDF input
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.0306
- Output
- $0.0493
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 8.2K
- Average output (7 days)
- 119 tokens
- Longer than 11% of 465 models
Side by side
Llama 3.2 3b Instruct compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Llama 3.2 3b InstructMetaThis model | Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorMetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Sep 2, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | — |
| Average output | 119 tokens | 1.2K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.0306Best | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.0493Best | $0.20 |
| Cache read | — | $0.002 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 160.4 tok/s | 212.9 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 0.8 sBest | 3.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.3% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 5.7 | — |
| Math Index | 3.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor
Intelligence Index
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct5.7
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor—
Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: Better than 2% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 3.3
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 4.3%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 5.3%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 25.5%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 34.7%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 26.2%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 8.3%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 3.3%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 6.7%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 48.9%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Legacy evaluations
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 21.1%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 4.3%
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 160.4 tok/s
- Faster than 78% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 0.8 s
- Quicker than 98% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 4.6%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Meta
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