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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

One million input tokens cost $0.050 and one million output tokens $0.33. Context window: 131k tokens, about 218 A4 pages.

Data from 11 November 2026 API identifier: meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct

What it costs in practice

Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.

TaskInputOutputCost
1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English 1,500 tokens 2,200 tokens $0.0008
100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer 70,000 tokens 40,000 tokens $0.02
Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes 250,000 tokens 30,000 tokens $0.02
The calculation does not include tax, intermediary markup, or context caching, which with repeated prompts can cut input costs by several dozen percent.

Technical details

ProviderMeta
Modalitiestext → text
Context window131k tokens (~218 A4 pages)
Maximum response118k tokens
Step-by-step reasoningno
Tool callingno
Forced JSON formatno
Knowledge cutoff2023-12-31
Cache readno data
Content moderationno extra filter

How it compares to the rest

The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is more expensive than 7 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 363 models.

Input price history

2026-09-08 · $0.0502026-11-11 · $0.050

The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.

Alternatives at a similar price

Models from other providers whose cost for the same article comes out closest.

ModelInput / MOutput / M1500-word articleContext
Qwen3.5-9BQwen (Alibaba) $0.17 $0.25 $0.0008 262k
Step 3.5 FlashStepfun $0.10 $0.30 $0.0008 262k
Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI $0.10 $0.30 $0.0008 33k
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen (Alibaba) $0.10 $0.30 $0.0008 262k

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