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meta-llama Llama 3.2 Community License out 2 years ago

3.21B parameters, text in, text out, 128K tokens of context. 3 providers serve it from $0.050 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #105 in LLMs · score 98.7 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 228k · #239 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?1.9GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethodCommunity: Llama-3.2-3B: 3B-Param Multilingual Transformer →
What does it cost?$0.050/1M incheapest of 2Parasailbf162026-10-24
Can I use it?Llama 3.2 Community LicenseAs 3.1; EU multimodal restriction in the textlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?228kdownloads, 30 days#239 of 619 we track · top 39%+21 likes, downloads −8% this week1,054 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 36 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

25 best of 36 tracked

The 3 picks above, plus these 22. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleLlama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable modelsai.meta.com · 2024-09-25 · 924 HN pts · official
  2. ArticleLlama 3.2 released: Multimodal, 1B to 90B sizesllama.com · 2024-09-25 · 89 HN pts · official
  3. ArticleI Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Servergeek.sg · 2024-10-16 · 221 HN pts
  4. ArticleOllama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locallyollama.com · 2024-11-06 · 182 HN pts
  5. ArticleLlama can now see and run on your device – welcome Llama 3.2huggingface.co · 2024-09-25 · 26 HN pts
  6. ArticleDownload Llama 3.2 1B, 3B, 11B, 90Bllama.com · 2024-09-25 · official
  7. ArticleShow HN: Llama 3.2 3B and Keiro Research achieves 85% on SimpleQAkeirolabs.cloud · 2026-03-07 · 6 HN pts
  8. ArticleVerbatim AI – on-device transcription (Whisper) + summaries (Llama 3.2)apps.apple.com · 2026-04-21 · 2 HN pts
  9. CodeLlama 3.2 Releasegithub.com · 2024-09-25
  10. ArticleLoad Llama-3.2 WebGPU in the browser from a local foldersimonwillison.net · 2025-09-09
  11. ArticleRWKV-7 beats Llama 3.2 with 3x fewer training tokens and formally exceeds TC^0ai.gopubby.com · 2026-02-23
  12. CodePydanticAI using Ollama (llama3.2) running locallygithub.com · 2024-12-06
  13. CodeShow HN: Recall – open-source local file organizer using Llama 3.2 and Ollamagithub.com · 2025-12-10
  14. CodeImplementing the Llama 3.2 1B and 3B Architectures from Scratchgithub.com · 2024-10-05
  15. CodeShow HN: MLX.zig – Llama 3.2 in Ziggithub.com · 2025-03-14
  16. ArticleOpen Source wireframe to app powered by Llama 3.2 Visionnapkins.dev · 2024-09-25
  17. ArticleShow HN: Finetune Llama 3.2 Vision in a Colabcolab.research.google.com · 2024-11-21
  18. DiscussionLlama 3.2: Lightweight models for edge devicestwitter.com · 2024-09-25
  19. ArticleLlama 3.2 3B Review: Best Local LLM Under 5 GB? | BestLLMforbestllmfor.com · 2026-05-28
  20. DiscussionLlama 3.2 1B and 3B on-device modelstwitter.com · 2024-09-25
  21. ArticleRun Llama 3.2 3B on your phoneapps.apple.com · 2025-01-18
  22. ArticleLLama3.2-vision as almost perfect OCR?demo.doctractor.com · 2024-11-18

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

2 providers from $0.050

2 providers with a live price, from $0.050 to $0.051 per million input tokens; the median is $0.050. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.

$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Parasail: $0.050 in / $0.33 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instructCloudflare: $0.051 in / $0.34 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instructcheapest $0.050median $0.050
$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Parasail: $0.050 in / $0.33 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instructCloudflare: $0.051 in / $0.34 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instructcheapest $0.050 · median $0.050 (white tick)
#Cheapest 3In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Parasail $0.050 $0.33 128K bf16 Oct 24
2 Cloudflare $0.051 $0.34 78K unknown Oct 24
3 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 3 providers →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 3 API providers; heavily run locally (156 quantized builds); a big base for builders (1,024 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service3Cloudflare, Featherless, Parasail
  • On own hardware156quantized builds
  • Built on1,024547 fine-tunes · 441 adapters · 36 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: tomg-group-umd/lm-watermarking ♥ 100 · Steveeeeeeen/SpeechLLM-Playbook ♥ 42 · AiActivity/AI-Assistant ♥ 21 · artificialguybr/CanIRunThisLLM ♥ 9

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 1.9 GB at INT4, 3.9 GB at FP8, 7.7 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.9 GBFP8: about 3.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP83.9 GBBF16: about 7.7 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF167.7 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.9 GBFP8: about 3.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP83.9 GBBF16: about 7.7 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF167.7 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

10 dated articles and 0 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-09-18), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it).

What people built on it

1,180 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

1,180 derivatives on the Hub, led by 547 fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

156 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)547 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)36 merges (Hugging Face model tree)441 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)156 quantized547 fine-tunes36 merges441 adapters
156 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)547 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)36 merges (Hugging Face model tree)441 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)156 quantized547 fine-tunes36 merges441 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

1 use case

What it is good at 1 use case

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

19 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesLlamaForCausalLM
Model typellama
Params by dtypeBF16: 3,212,749,824
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length131,072 (provider listing)
Gatedmanual
PapersarXiv:2204.05149, arXiv:2405.16406
LicenseLlama 3.2 Community License (llama3.2)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · LlamaForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Llama-3.2-3B: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)7.7 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)3.9 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)1.9 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: meta-llama/Llama-3.2 1,180 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 547quantized: 156adapter: 441merge: 36

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 unsloth 18 732.9k
unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.30B M llama3.2 unsloth 23 502.8k
HumeAI/tada-3b-ml finetune — 4.23B M llama3.2 HumeAI 161 258.4k
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-SpinQuant_INT4_EO8 finetune — — — llama3.2 meta-llama 40 116.3k
lemuralabs/Llama-3.2-3B-Uncensored-GGUF adapter GGUF — — apache-2.0 lemuralabs 53 112.4k
dphn/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 dphn 76 64.5k
QuantFactory/OneLLM-Doey-V1-Llama-3.2-3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 QuantFactory 2 35.2k
deepcogito/cogito-v1-preview-llama-3B finetune — 3.61B M llama3.2 deepcogito 102 28.7k
MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.1-llamaloi-3b finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 MaziyarPanahi 1 33.7k
ABDALLALSWAITI/llm_3_2_flux_prompt quantized GGUF 3.21B M llama3.2 ABDALLALSWAITI 15 30.8k
nvidia/llama-nv-embed-reasoning-3b finetune — 3.21B M cc-by-4.0 nvidia 28 29.3k
lastmass/llama3.2-chinese quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lastmass 7 24k
Mungert/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3.2 Mungert 4 22.3k
OctoThinker/OctoThinker-3B-Long-Base finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 OctoThinker 1 21.8k
OctoThinker/OctoThinker-3B-Hybrid-Base finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 OctoThinker 1 21.3k
OctoThinker/OctoThinker-8B-Hybrid-Base finetune — 8.03B M llama3.2 OctoThinker 2 17.3k
pangram/editlens_Llama-3.2-3B adapter — — — cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 pangram 36 15.4k
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-QLORA_INT4_EO8 finetune — — — llama3.2 meta-llama 76 11k
LTS-VVE/Teuta quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 LTS-VVE 3 10.7k
twinkle-ai/Llama-3.2-3B-F1-Instruct finetune — 3.61B M llama3.2 twinkle-ai 27 6.9k
QuantFactory/Dolphin3.0-Llama3.2-3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3.2 QuantFactory 3 7.8k
Shyamnath/Llama-3.2-3b-Uncensored-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Shyamnath 6 7k
QuantFactory/Llama-3.2-Taiwan-3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — llama3.2 QuantFactory 4 6.6k
slprl/SIMS-Llama3.2-3B finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 slprl 2 6.7k
bodhan-ai/indic-speak finetune — 3.30B M other bodhan-ai 46 4.5k
NeuraLakeAi/iSA-03-Mini-3B-Hybrid-Preview finetune — — — apache-2.0 NeuraLakeAi 4 6.5k
OctoThinker/OctoThinker-3B-Short-Base finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 OctoThinker 0 6.4k
michelkao/Ollama-3.2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — creativeml-openrail-m michelkao 0 5.8k
prithivMLmods/Llama-3.2-3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — creativeml-openrail-m prithivMLmods 2 5.4k
rshwndsz/Llama-3.2-3B-SFT finetune — 3.21B M — rshwndsz 1 5.3k
lianghsun/Llama-3.2-Taiwan-3B finetune — 3.61B M llama3.2 lianghsun 31 3.6k
OctoThinker/OctoThinker-8B-Short-Base finetune — 8.03B M llama3.2 OctoThinker 1 4.9k
HuggingFaceTB/FineMath-Llama-3B finetune — 3.21B M apache-2.0 HuggingFaceTB 23 3.2k
brianknowsai/Brian-Llama-3.2-3B finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 brianknowsai 1 4k
hishab/titulm-llama-3.2-3b-v1.1 finetune — 3.21B M llama3.2 hishab 0 3.6k
activeDap/Llama-3.2-3B_hh_harmful finetune — 3.21B M apache-2.0 activeDap 1 3.4k
sai-santhosh/text-2-sql-Llama-3.2-3B finetune — 3.21B M apache-2.0 sai-santhosh 0 3.4k
hathibelagal/llama-3.2-latin finetune — 3.21B M — hathibelagal 2 3.3k
ericflo/Llama-3.2-3B-COT quantized GGUF 3.21B M apache-2.0 ericflo 2 2.7k
Gurubot/self-after-dark-3b quantized GGUF 3.61B M apache-2.0 Gurubot 3 2.6k

Repository changelog

1 change
changed in the last 7 daysRank band moves: 2026-10-23all changes

All providers

3 providers · 3 endpoints

Where to run 3 providers · 3 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Llama-3.2-3B, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.05/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Parasail
openrouter
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct 128K bf16 $0.05 $0.33 — — — live 2026-10-24
Cloudflare
openrouter
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct 78K unknown $0.05 $0.34 — — — live 2026-10-24
Featherless
hf
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

36 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official2

ai.meta.com2024-09-25officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 924 pts · 328 comments2,460 words
Meta releases Llama 3.2, featuring small and medium-sized vision LLMs (11B and 90B) alongside lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) designed for edge and mobile devices. The 11B and 90B models serve as drop-in replacements for their corresponding text model equivalents while the 1B and 3B models support a context length of 128K tokens and are enabled on day one for Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware. Both pre-trained and aligned vision models are available for fine-tuning using torchtune and local deployment via torchchat, with weights based on BFloat16 numerics.written, reviewed, cited
  • The 11B and 90B vision models require an entirely new model architecture that supports image reasoning.
  • Developers can keep all text-only capabilities intact because the adapter training intentionally did not update the language-model parameters.
  • The 1B and 3B models are created by using structured pruning in a single shot manner from the Llama 3.1 8B.
llama.com2024-09-25officialauthorityabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 89 pts · 19 comments42 words

Analysis8

github.com2024-11-21authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 579 pts · 99 comments5,768 words
The project trained a Sparse Autoencoder on 6.5 Billion activations from Llama 3.2-3B layer 23 over 10 epochs. Data capture processed 25 million sentences totaling 4TB of raw activation data compressed to 3.2TB.generated, cited
geek.sg2024-10-16HN front pageabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 221 pts · 90 comments2,289 words
A guide details self-hosting Llama 3.2 on a home server using Coolify and Ollama. The author achieved a 10x reduction in inference time by enabling GPU acceleration on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 using the CUDA toolkit and nvidia-container-toolkit. The setup involves installing Ubuntu 24, configuring Cloudflare Tunnels, and managing CUDA toolkits.written, reviewed, cited
  • Anyone with physical access can read your data if you avoid LVM or disk encryption for smoother reboots.
  • Cloudflare provides free SSL certificates only for wildcard domains at the top level, not on subdomains.
  • The Ollama service initially runs on the CPU until the NVIDIA Container Toolkit is installed and configured.
github.com2026-06-23authorityabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 2 pts · 0 comments196 words
A minimal implementation of Llama 3.2 Instruct inference runs in ~100 lines of pure Numpy code. The project supports Python ≥ 3.10 and includes backends for PyTorch and Jax alongside the primary Numpy version. Ingredients in Llama 3.2 include RoPE with the Llama-3 frequency scaling, GQA, RMSNorm, SwiGLU MLP, and a shared unembedding / embedding matrix.written, reviewed, cited
ollama.com2024-11-06HN front pageabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 182 pts · 25 comments202 words
huggingface.co2024-09-25authorityabout the Llama 3.2 familyHN 26 pts · 1 comments3,434 words
bilawal.net2025-09-01HN 31 pts · 8 comments
keirolabs.cloud2026-03-07HN 6 pts · 1 comments4,782 words
apps.apple.com2026-04-21about the Llama 3.2 familyHN 2 pts · 1 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (36) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Llama 3.2: A Deep Dive into Meta's Vision for Edge AIdeveloper.tenten.co—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.2: Specs, Benchmarks & Pricing | AI/TLDRai-tldr.dev—2026-10-07exa
Llama 3.2 3B — benchmarks, pricing & hardware fit · Model Beatsmodelbeats.com—2026-10-07exa
Llama-3.2-3B: 3B-Param Multilingual Transformeremergentmind.com—2026-10-07exa
WeightWatcher: Data-Free Diagnostics for Deep Learningweightwatcher.ai—2026-10-07exa
https://blog.ahmadwkhan.com/llama-3-2-a-deep-diveblog.ahmadwkhan.com—2026-10-07exa
Show HN: MinLlama – Llama 3.2 inference in ~100 lines of NumPygithub.com2026-06-232026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 3B Review: Best Local LLM Under 5 GB? | BestLLMforbestllmfor.com2026-05-282026-10-07exa
Verbatim AI – on-device transcription (Whisper) + summaries (Llama 3.2)apps.apple.com2026-04-212026-10-07hn
Show HN: Llama 3.2 3B and Keiro Research achieves 85% on SimpleQAkeirolabs.cloud2026-03-072026-10-07hn
RWKV-7 beats Llama 3.2 with 3x fewer training tokens and formally exceeds TC^0ai.gopubby.com2026-02-232026-10-07hn
Show HN: Recall – open-source local file organizer using Llama 3.2 and Ollamagithub.com2025-12-102026-10-07hn
Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in the browser from a local foldersimonwillison.net2025-09-092026-10-07hn
Show HN: Fine-tuned Llama 3.2 3B to match 70B models for local transcriptsbilawal.net2025-09-012026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 | meta-llama/llama-models | DeepWikideepwiki.com2025-07-302026-10-07exa
Show HN: MLX.zig – Llama 3.2 in Ziggithub.com2025-03-142026-10-07hn
Llama 3.1 8B vs Llama 3.2 3B: Balancing Power and Mobile Efficiency - Novitablogs.novita.ai2025-01-272026-10-07exa
Run Llama 3.2 3B on your phoneapps.apple.com2025-01-182026-10-07hn
I built this robot and gave it a llama3.2 braintwitter.com2025-01-142026-10-07hn
Running Llama 3.2 (3B) locally on iPhone Protwitter.com2024-12-102026-10-07hn
PydanticAI using Ollama (llama3.2) running locallygithub.com2024-12-062026-10-07hn
Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencodersgithub.com2024-11-212026-10-07hn
Show HN: Finetune Llama 3.2 Vision in a Colabcolab.research.google.com2024-11-212026-10-07hn
LLama3.2-vision as almost perfect OCR?demo.doctractor.com2024-11-182026-10-07hn
Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locallyollama.com2024-11-062026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 Benchmark Insights and Revolutionizing Edge AI and Vision | by Amdad H | Towards AGI | Mediummedium.com2024-10-172026-10-07exa
I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Servergeek.sg2024-10-162026-10-07hn
Implementing the Llama 3.2 1B and 3B Architectures from Scratchgithub.com2024-10-052026-10-07hn
Llama can now see and run on your device – welcome Llama 3.2huggingface.co2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Open Source wireframe to app powered by Llama 3.2 Visionnapkins.dev2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 1B and 3B on-device modelstwitter.com2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2: Lightweight models for edge devicestwitter.com2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 Releasegithub.com2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable modelsai.meta.com official2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Download Llama 3.2 1B, 3B, 11B, 90Bllama.com official2024-09-252026-10-07hn
Llama 3.2 released: Multimodal, 1B to 90B sizesllama.com official2024-09-252026-10-07hn

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