Llama 3.2 1B Instruct API pricing
Meta · Budget price tier · Llama 3.x · released 2024-09. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct has held the same list price since 2026-10-18 and is the 25th cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier. Only one host, Cloudflare, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.027 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.201 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 60K tokens
- Arena ELO: 1111 as of 2026-10-08
Available on
AWS Bedrock regions: eu-central-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-3, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Market position
On blended price ($0.1488 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 85% of models in the Budget price tier: 25th cheapest of 164. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 92% of priced text models in the catalogue: 25th cheapest of 308. Its Arena ELO of 1111 is the lowest of the 156 models that carry one. With an Arena score of 1111, Llama 3.2 1B Instruct sits below OptimNow's lowest working quality threshold, Standard (Arena 1415+), so the quality-bar method would not shortlist it for any of the 8 use cases the table prices. Each threshold is a distance below the best ranked model, which scores 1525 on Arena scores as of 8 Oct 2026.
Licence, size and capabilities
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Llama 3.x, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 1B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text. Filling its 60K context window once costs $0.00162 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
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Cloudflare is the only host with a published rate, $0.027 input / $0.201 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare (price we quote) | $0.027 | $0.201 |
List prices as published on 2026-10-22, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where Meta publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $14 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $21 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $51 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $43 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $48 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $16 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $19 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $77 |
Price history
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.027 input / $0.201 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
Alternatives to Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Ling 3.0 Flash VL (inclusionai) at $0.144 blended, 3% less.
- Next more expensive: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) at $0.15 blended, 1% more.
The nearest models in the Budget price tier on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Llama 3.2 1B Instruct.
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (Meta): $0.0509 in / $0.335 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1167 (68% more expensive, 56 ELO points higher)
- Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta): $0.05 in / $0.08 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1211 (52% cheaper, 100 ELO points higher)
- Command R (08-2024) (Cohere): $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1250 (213% more expensive, 139 ELO points higher)
- Phi 4 (Microsoft): $0.07 in / $0.14 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1256 (20% cheaper, 145 ELO points higher)
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: GLM 5.3 Flash (Zhipu), 6% cheaper, 364 ELO points higher, out of 5 models in that price band.
Other models from Meta
The 8 nearest to Llama 3.2 1B Instruct in price, of 15 other Meta models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Llama 3.1 8B Instruct: $0.05 / $0.08
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: $0.10 / $0.20
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: $0.10 / $0.20
- Llama Guard 4 12B: $0.18 / $0.18
- Llama 4 Scout: $0.10 / $0.30
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct: $0.0509 / $0.335
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: $0.10 / $0.32
- Llama 3.1 70B Instruct: $0.40 / $0.40
Common questions about Llama 3.2 1B Instruct pricing
- How much does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct cost?
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct costs $0.027 per 1M input tokens and $0.201 per 1M output tokens at Cloudflare, the host whose rate we quote. Prices as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Which host is cheapest for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?
- Cloudflare is the only host with a published rate, $0.027 input / $0.201 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct as of 2026-10-22.
- What would Llama 3.2 1B Instruct cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $14 on Llama 3.2 1B Instruct at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Llama 3.2 1B Instruct be self-hosted?
- Yes, within the terms of its licence. Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Llama 3.x, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially.
- Has the price of Llama 3.2 1B Instruct changed?
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.027 input / $0.201 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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