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

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

Where can I download or evaluate Llama 3.2 1B Instruct?

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct by onnx-community — 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Author: onnx-community

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct is an open-source language model by onnx-community. Features: 1b LLM, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Base model:quantized:meta-llam... Conversational Instruct Llama Onnx Region:us Transformers.js

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

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Text generation

Additional Notes

ONNX weights are used for compatibility with Transformers.js. There are structured repositories to host these weights.

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
Model Size	1b
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	onnx-community
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256

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