Plain-English Summary
A compact Llama model suitable for on-device and edge text applications.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
A compact Llama model suitable for on-device and edge text applications.
Llama 3.2
General LLM
Open weights
Open weights: Yes
API: Via Meta and partners
Technical Notes
Dense 3B instruction-tuned text model with 128K context and efficient local deployment.
Best For
On-device assistants, classification, extraction, private local apps
Watch Out For
Limited knowledge and reasoning compared with larger models.
Model Specs
- Maker
- Meta
- Country
- USA
- Family
- Llama 3.2
- Type
- General LLM
- Release date
- 2024-09-25
- Date confidence
- Exact
- Status
- Open weights
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- Not listed
- Parameters
- 3B
- Active parameters
- 3B
- Architecture
- Dense transformer
- Reasoning
- Basic / general reasoning
- Tool calling
- Host dependent
- Structured output
- Host dependent
- API available
- Via Meta and partners
- Open weights
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- License
- Llama 3.2 Community License
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Approx. price
- See provider pricing
- How to access
- Provider website
- Model / API ID
- Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Fine-tuning, quantization, on-device deployment
- Completeness
- 95 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source