Meta Llama 3.2 3B Instruct vs Tencent Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Both cost about the same at a typical 3:1 input/output mix.
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 131K vs 8K tokens.
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 99.44%.
- Hy-MT2-30B-A3B is the newer model (released 2026-08-20).
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Hy-MT2-30B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Meta | Tencent |
| Released | 2024-09-25 | 2026-08-20 |
| Input / 1M | $0.05 | $0.074 |
| Output / 1M | $0.33 | $0.295 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.12 | $0.129 |
| Context | 131K | 8K |
| Max output | 118K | 4K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.33 | $0.295 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.44% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
$7.95 per month$0.27 per day
Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
$8.87 per month$0.30 per day
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct saves $0.91 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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