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# Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct: $0.027/M in, $0.201/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Meta · released 2024-09-25

 $0.070 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.027 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.201 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1054.8 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 60K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 60K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-12-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

Llama 3.2 1B is a 1-billion-parameter language model focused on efficiently performing natural language tasks, such as summarization, dialogue, and multilingual text analysis. Its smaller size allows it to operate...