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Meta-Llama-3-8b-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

RUN BOTH LIVE

Paste a prompt. Watch them race.

Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.

Sign in to runLive streaming uses your own key. It's free to sign up.
 Meta-Llama-3-8b-Instruct
hf/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct
Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct
meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct
ProviderHugging FaceMeta
FamilyLlama 3Llama 3
Modalitytexttext
Context window4,096 tok60,000 tok
Max output4,096 tok4,096 tok
Released2024-04-182024-09-25
Input price$0.050 /1M$0.027 /1M
Output price$0.100 /1M$0.200 /1M
Cache read
Tools
Streamingyesyes
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Meta-Llama-3-8b-Instruct
hf/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct
Full spec →

Generation over generation, Meta Llama 3 demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offers new capabilities, including improved reasoning.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct
meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct
Full spec →

The Llama 3.2 instruction-tuned text only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases, including agentic retrieval and summarization tasks.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Open-weight
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Meta-Llama-3-8b-Instruct
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="hf/meta-llama/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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