Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
Llama 3.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter multilingual large language model, optimized for advanced natural language processing tasks like dialogue generation, reasoning, and summarization. Designed with the latest transformer architecture, it supports eight languages, including English, Spanish, and Hindi, and is adaptable for additional languages. Trained on 9 trillion tokens, the Llama 3.2 3B model excels in instruction-following, complex reasoning, and tool use. Its balanced performance makes i
Context window
This model accepts 131K tokens in one request (~98K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
Context size, pricing, and release info in one place.
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Speed tier
- fast
- Provider
- Meta
- Model family
- Llama 3.2
- Release date
- Sep 2024
Capabilities
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- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Not supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Not supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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