Deploy and Host llama3.2-1b on Railway

Llama-3.2-1B is Meta’s open-weight model designed for efficient reasoning, instruction following, and lightweight deployment across diverse developer use cases.

About Hosting Llama3.2-1b

Hosting Llama3.2-1b is possible on railway, however this model runs at a very low token per second rate as it is CPU bound. This template will be kept up to date for ideal optimization.

Important hosting information

Please keep these in mind if you are considering hosting Llama3.2-1b for yourself.

Any AI model requires a large amount of resources to run. Because of this, at the current moment Railway's hobby plan can not operate in a satisfactory manner. For optimal operation, we suggest the following:

• 3g volume storage.
• 4g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

(The above numbers provide slight padding in case models run high.)

Important pricing information

This model idle sits at roughly 12mb of ram and low cpu. During process it spikes to 3g of ram and 32vCPU.

Your price per month of hosting llama3.2-1b will range from roughly $20-$670 per month of raw resource usage alone. If you plan on deploying llama3.2-1b please be aware of the costs behind it.

Common Use Cases

• Completely private and secured AI model.

Dependencies for llama3.2-1b Hosting

• 3g volume storage.
• 4g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

Deployment Dependencies

• 3g volume storage.
• 4g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

Why Deploy llama3.2-1b on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying llama3.2-1b on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.