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Llama 3.2 3b Instruct

Added Jan 1, 2024Open weights

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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

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Llama 3.2 3b InstructMetaThis modelReka Flash 3rekaRemove
ProviderMetareka
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedJan 1, 2024Oct 15, 2026
Limits
Context window131.07KBest65.54K
Max output8.19K65.54KBest
Average output119 tokens2.7K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.0306Best$0.11
Output$0.0493Best$0.21
Performance
Throughput160.4 tok/s—
Time to first token0.8 s—
Request success (24h)100.0%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index5.7Best5.6
Math Index3.333.7Best
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
Structured outputNoYes
PDF inputYesNo
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct
  • Reka Flash 3

Intelligence Index

  • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct5.7
  • Reka Flash 35.6

Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: Better than 2% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 3.3
    • Reka Flash 3: 33.7Top

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 4.3%Top
    • Reka Flash 3: 0.0%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 5.3%Top
    • Reka Flash 3: 4.4%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 25.5%
    • Reka Flash 3: 52.9%Top

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 34.7%
    • Reka Flash 3: 66.9%Top

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 26.2%
    • Reka Flash 3: 30.4%Top

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 8.3%
    • Reka Flash 3: 43.5%Top

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 3.3%
    • Reka Flash 3: 33.7%Top

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 6.7%
    • Reka Flash 3: 51.0%Top

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 48.9%
    • Reka Flash 3: 89.3%Top

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: —
    • Reka Flash 3: 0.0%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 21.1%Top
    • Reka Flash 3: 0.0%

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Llama 3.2 3b Instruct: 4.3%Top
    • Reka Flash 3: 0.0%

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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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