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This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Meta · 25 Sept 2024 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.071** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out deal-only price: No offer passes the like-for-like test, so this price is a fallback: precision not disclosed. · precision not disclosed: The seller whose offer sets this price does not declare its serving precision. It is not read as full precision. [gpt-oss-120b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) · Δ score 310.8 points · 8% lower measured price · $0.065 / 1M tokens [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) is a further stored option with these losses: 54K → 33K max output Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,054.6 ± 7.7 · 8,045 votes Context window 60K Maximum output 54K Input modalities text Output modalities text Published input price $0.027 / 1M tokens Published output price $0.201 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Cloudflare: no serving offer passes the like-for-like test, so this is a fallback. deal-only price precision not disclosed The seller whose offer sets this price does not declare its serving precision. It is not read as full precision. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.027 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $0.201 /M | | Cached input | Unknown /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Cloudflare cloudflare Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 60,000 tokens Output limit 54,000 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.027 | Output $0.201 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 100.00% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1054.6 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. ### Capability | Context window | 60K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 54K | | Input modes | text | | Tool use | no | | Reasoning | no | | Knowledge cutoff | 2023-12-31 | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | People search Llama 3.2 1B Instruct under spaced, hyphenated, and OpenRouter-id forms. This is that API row, not the 3B instruct SKU. 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... ## Questions this page answers What does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct cost? $0.027/M in, $0.201/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct have an independent quality score? Llama 3.2 1B Instruct has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Llama 3.2 1B Instruct? gpt-oss-120b has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [gpt-oss-120b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [gpt-oss-20b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-20b/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Llama 3.2 3B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.2-3b-instruct/) - Same vendor [Llama 3.1 70B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-70b-instruct/) - Meta models [Meta](/providers/meta/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Llama 3.1 8B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) - Same vendor [Llama 3.3 70B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.3-70b-instruct/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Command R (08-2024)](/models/cohere__command-r-08-2024/) - Same vendor [Muse Spark 1.1](/models/meta__muse-spark-1.1/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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