Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

by Meta

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is Meta's small but capable text model, released September 2024 for efficient inference at competitive quality. With 3 billion parameters and a 32,768-token context window, it sits above the 1B model and suits tasks where base generation quality matters more than minimal footprint. It handles general-purpose text understanding, summarization, simple coding tasks, and dialogue, and runs efficiently on consumer hardware, making it accessible for researchers, startups, and cost-sensitive deployments. It is useful for question-answering systems, content moderation, text classification, and customer support automation at lower operational cost than larger models. The compact context window suits shorter documents and single-turn interactions, and it remains a popular balance between capability and efficiency.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
33K
Max output
32K
Input price
$0.03 /1M
Output price
$0.05 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USEnterpriseNo$0.03$0.05

Training posture across routes: No training on prompts by default.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Llama 3.2 3B Instruct has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Novita β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Llama 3.2 3B Instruct through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into your coding agent β€” Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more β€” and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.click/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "novita/meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instruct",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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