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Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

AI model Released

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct 1109.5 Llama 3.2 3B Instruct · 95% interval 1102.0–1117.1 · 7,936 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,017.21 rating

Confidence interval: 992.83 – 1,041.58

721 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,097.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,081.62 – 1,113.23

1351 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,093.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,075.00 – 1,112.74

1070 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,179.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.00 – 1,189.21

4157 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

933.13 rating

Confidence interval: 919.79 – 946.48

5442 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,089.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,065.73 – 1,114.10

499 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,056.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,015.67 – 1,096.58

232 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,094.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,082.37 – 1,106.65

2216 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,140.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,125.85 – 1,155.75

1377 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,073.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,053.98 – 1,093.22

1012 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,083.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,065.77 – 1,100.90

1149 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,115.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,087.35 – 1,143.23

506 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,105.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,088.49 – 1,123.14

1355 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,128.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,111.70 – 1,145.16

980 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,104.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,074.20 – 1,134.19

441 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,103.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,090.28 – 1,116.05

2165 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,095.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,081.73 – 1,109.28

2118 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,088.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,078.00 – 1,099.48

3171 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,100.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,082.40 – 1,117.91

1046 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,125.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,110.20 – 1,141.57

1136 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,105.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,088.10 – 1,122.06

1299 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,018.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,007.63 – 1,029.77

3779 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,109.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,101.96 – 1,117.06

7936 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

948.73 rating

Confidence interval: 926.31 – 971.16

933 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,017.25 rating

Confidence interval: 992.87 – 1,041.64

721 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,097.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,081.72 – 1,113.33

1351 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,094.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,075.15 – 1,112.90

1070 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,179.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,169.95 – 1,189.16

4157 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

933.14 rating

Confidence interval: 919.80 – 946.49

5442 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,089.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,065.76 – 1,114.14

499 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,056.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,015.69 – 1,096.56

232 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,094.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,082.36 – 1,106.64

2216 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,140.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,125.73 – 1,155.64

1377 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,073.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,054.02 – 1,093.26

1012 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,083.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,065.83 – 1,100.97

1149 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,115.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,087.09 – 1,142.98

506 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,105.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,088.46 – 1,123.12

1355 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,128.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,111.69 – 1,145.16

980 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,104.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,074.26 – 1,134.25

441 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,103.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,090.36 – 1,116.14

2165 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,095.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,081.79 – 1,109.35

2118 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,088.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,078.01 – 1,099.49

3171 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,100.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,082.44 – 1,117.95

1046 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,125.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,110.16 – 1,141.53

1136 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,105.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,088.10 – 1,122.06

1299 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,018.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,007.72 – 1,029.86

3779 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

1,109.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,101.94 – 1,117.05

7936 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

948.89 rating

Confidence interval: 926.46 – 971.32

933 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
llama-3.2-3b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

6.0 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 3.21 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

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Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

Capabilities

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Model license
llama3.2
Checkpoint tensor payload
5.98 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text