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GROUNDED IN REAL HUMAN CONVERSATIONSYOUR BENCH
Llama 3B
◆ OPEN
by Meta
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALSMALLEVERYDAY WRITINGQUICK ANSWERS
RANKED #219 OF 271 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #351 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.3 · 157 VOICES
Llama 3B is a fast, lightweight text model from Meta designed for quick everyday writing tasks.
HAPPY7.2
29 mentions
SAD7.8
22 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 14 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Llama 3B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
3.2B parameters, a Q4 file is about 2.0 GB, while FP16 is about 6.4 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Used NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
6 GB VRAM
~$50 USEDQ4_K_M, ~25 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDQ8_0, ~50 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Used NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$800 USEDFP16, ~60 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LLAMA 3B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Llama 3B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMUsed NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB | FULL POWERUsed NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~20 S | ~10 S | ~8 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~60 S★★★★★ | ~30 S★★★★★ | ~25 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~5.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | ~5 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.2 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People love Llama 3B for its fast, dependable answers and great value, though some complain that it occasionally makes things up.
39 POSTS · 118 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Llama 3B.
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LLaSA 3B: The New SOTA Model for TTS and Voice Cloning
- REDDIT · 2024-09-25 · 266 UPVOTESLlama 3.2 Released.
Llama 3.2 Released.
- REDDIT · 2024-10-24 · 99 UPVOTESMeta releases new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B & 3B that deliver up to 2-4x increases in inference speed and, on average, 56%…
Meta releases new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B & 3B that deliver up to 2-4x increases in inference speed and, on average, 56% reduction in model size, and 41% reduction in memory footprint
- REDDIT · 2024-09-25 · 65 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
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- REDDIT · 2024-09-30 · 53 UPVOTESComment in r/ClaudeAI
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- REDDIT · 2025-04-22 · 38 UPVOTESWe built an evaluation framework to assess small language models (SLMs) as summarizers in RAG systems, here is what we found!
We built an evaluation framework to assess small language models (SLMs) as summarizers in RAG systems, here is what we found!
- REDDIT · 2025-05-23 · 35 UPVOTESSLM RAG Arena - Compare and Find The Best Sub-5B Models for RAG
SLM RAG Arena - Compare and Find The Best Sub-5B Models for RAG
- REDDIT · 2026-01-22 · 32 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2024-07-30 · 28 UPVOTESApple Releases Technical Details of its Foundation Models for iOS 18
Apple Releases Technical Details of its Foundation Models for iOS 18
- REDDIT · 2024-10-24 · 18 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2024-09-25 · 15 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
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- REDDIT · 2024-09-26 · 14 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
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