Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Pricing updated daily · Last refreshed Oct 29, 2026

Meta model with a 60K-token context window, priced at $0.027 per million input tokens and $0.201 per million output tokens.

At a glance

Provider
Meta
Context window
60,000 tokens
Max output
54,000 tokens
Input price
$0.027 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.201 / 1M tokens
Input types
text
Function calling
No
Released
September 25, 2024

What it costs

Illustrative request sizes, not measurements of any real product. For your own volumes, use the cost estimator.

Example costs for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
WorkloadTokens in / outPer requestPer 1,000 requests
Short chat reply1,000 / 500$0.000128$0.1275
Question over retrieved documents8,000 / 500$0.000316$0.3165
Summarise a long document50,000 / 1,500$0.0017$1.65

How it compares

  • Input price ($0.027 per 1M tokens) is the lowest of 30 models in the catalogue.
  • Output price ($0.201 per 1M tokens) is the 4th lowest of 30.
  • Context window (60K tokens) is the 30th largest of 30.
  • Maximum output (54K tokens) is the 22nd largest of 30.
  • On blended price it is 55% cheaper than the median Meta model in the catalogue.

These are rankings by listed price and size within this catalogue (blended price weights input 3:1 against output), not a measure of output quality.

Cheaper models with the same capabilities

Lower blended price, at least the same context window, and the same input types.

Cheaper alternatives to Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
ModelProviderContextInput $/1MOutput $/1M
Command R7B (12-2024)Cohere128K$0.037$0.15

More from Meta

Other Meta models
ModelProviderContextInput $/1MOutput $/1M
Llama Guard 4 12BMeta164K$0.18$0.18
Llama 4 MaverickMeta524K$0.188$0.652
Llama 4 ScoutMeta1.31M$0.10$0.30
Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta131K$0.10$0.32

Try it with your own text

Source: OpenRouter’s public model catalogue (meta-llama/llama-3.2-1b-instruct), read once a day. These are the prices OpenRouter charges; a provider’s own list price can differ, so check the provider before committing to a budget.

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