What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct requires approximately 2.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3.2 1B Instruct and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is developed by fanherodev, a model with 1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3.2 1B Instruct perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1110. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct by fanherodev — VRAM 2.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Author: fanherodev

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is an open-source language model by fanherodev. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27, ELO: 1110.

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/fanherodev/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1110 vs 1272 (so35) -12.7%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/fanherodev/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	fanherodev
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.5 GB
Supported Languages	en de fr it pt hi es th
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than fanherodev/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.