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Kanana-2 3B Instruct
CurrentReleased Jul 24, 2026Open WeightNon-Reasoning32K contextKakao Kanana-2 3B Instruct model card
Released Jul 24, 2026 — see all recent releases
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Kanana-2 3B Instruct is tracked, but not publicly ranked yet. The profile exposes 4 sourced benchmark rows and leaves unsupported fields blank until a published record exists.
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4 published rows leave some tracked benchmark slots empty. No comparable first-party API token rate is published.
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Price
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
input median $1
No comparable first-party hosted token rate
Speed
Not measured
field median 86.5 tok/s
Time to first token not measured
Context
32Ktokens
field median 256,000
Maximum output length is tracked separately
How much of this is verified
Coverage is split by category so a strong number never hides a thin evidence base. Verified means the row is tied to a published source; provisional rows remain visible but separate.
- AgenticNot measured
- CodingNot measured
- ReasoningNot measured
- KnowledgeNot measured
- Math1/1 verified
- MultilingualNot measured
- MultimodalNot measured
- Inst. Following2/2 verified
Verified sourceProvisionalNot measured
Spec sheet
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- API model ID
- kakaocorp/kanana-2-3b-instructKakao Kanana-2 3B Instruct model card
- Context window
- 32KKakao Kanana-2 3B Instruct model card
- Maximum output
- Not sourced yet
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not sourced yet
- Input modalities
- Not sourced yet
- Output modalities
- Not sourced yet
- Parameters
- Not sourced yet
- Availability
- Kakao publishes the 3.18B-parameter on-device instruct model on Hugging Face under its own Kanana license, with sliding-window attention and a native 32,768-token context.
- Cloud regions
- Not tracked yet
- Lifecycle
- Current
- API capabilities
- Tool calling, structured outputs, and batch support are not tracked yet
- Prompt caching
- Not documented in the pricing recordKakao Kanana-2 3B Instruct model card
- Self-host
- Open weights available; hardware estimate not sourced
- Rate limits
- Not tracked yet
Deployment options
Self-host and provider-specific paths stay separate from benchmark evidence so operating constraints are visible before a score becomes the whole decision.
Published weights are available, but BenchLM does not yet have a sourced parameter and VRAM profile for this exact model. Hardware cost estimates stay unavailable until that sizing record is complete.
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Scores and ranks appear only where published evidence can be displayed. The table keeps the score, weight, cohort, and evidence state together.
| Category | Score | Rank | Percentile | Weight | Benchmarks | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgenticWeight 22%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 22% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| CodingWeight 20%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 20% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| ReasoningWeight 17%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 17% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| KnowledgeWeight 12%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 12% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| MathWeight 5%1 benchmarkVerified | Score pending | Not ranked | Not available | 5% | 1 benchmark | Verified |
| MultilingualWeight 7%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 7% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| MultimodalWeight 12%0 benchmarksNot measured | Not measured | Not ranked | Not available | 12% | 0 benchmarks | Not measured |
| Inst. FollowingRank Not rankedWeight 5%2 benchmarksVerified | 9.7 | Not ranked | Not available | 5% | 2 benchmarks | Verified |
Benchmark ledger
Math opens by default. The marker compares each value with the best source-verified result in the catalog; provisional leaders do not set the reference. Expand the remaining categories for every published row.
Math1 row
| Benchmark | Score | Versus best verified row | Gap | Weight | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATH-500MATH-500 Problem Set | Score61.2% | Versus best verified row Best verified: LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse · 95.8% | Gap34.6 behind | WeightDisplay only | Provider exact |
Inst. Following2 rows
| Benchmark | Score | Versus best verified row | Gap | Weight | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFBenchInstruction Following Benchmark | Score33.3% | Versus best verified row Best verified: MAI-Thinking-1 · 85% | Gap51.7 behind | WeightWeighted 70% | Provider exact |
| IFEvalInstruction-Following Eval | Score81.0% | Versus best verified row Best verified: Qwen3.5-27B · 95% | Gap14 behind | WeightDisplay only | Provider exact |
Korean1 row
| Benchmark | Score | Versus best verified row | Gap | Weight | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMMLUKorean Massive Multitask Language Understanding | Score43.3% | Versus best verified row Best verified: Kanana-2 3B Instruct · 43.3% | GapBest verified | WeightDisplay only | Provider exact |
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Jul 24, 2026 · you are here
Kanana-2 3B InstructNot publicly ranked · Price not listed
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How to read this profile
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We track Kanana-2 3B Instruct, but the public leaderboard excludes this profile until enough non-generated benchmark coverage is available. Only published rows appear above.
Kanana-2 3B Instruct is a open weight model with a 32K context window. No explicit reasoning mode is documented in this profile.
Kakao publishes the 3.18B-parameter on-device instruct model on Hugging Face under its own Kanana license, with sliding-window attention and a native 32,768-token context.
Official exact-value snapshot from the Kanana-2 Hugging Face model cards and Kakao’s July 2026 tech post. BenchLM maps IFBench, IFEval, MATH-500, and KMMLU (CoT) onto existing lanes; MT-Bench, KoMT-Bench, IHEval, BFCL-v3, MBPP, GSM-Plus, Minerva Math, MMLU-CoT, HAE-RAE, and KoSimpleQA have no exact compatible lane. Provider-run rows keep the row unranked.
Kanana-2 3B Instruct sits in the Kanana 2 family with Kanana-2 1.3B Instruct. 4 of 434 tracked benchmark slots currently have displayable evidence. Missing categories stay blank.
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Frequently asked questions
How does Kanana-2 3B Instruct perform overall in AI benchmarks?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct has 4 source-displayable benchmark rows, but it does not qualify for a public overall rank. The available rows remain visible by category without being converted into a site-wide score. Missing evidence stays blank instead of being estimated from an earlier model.
Is Kanana-2 3B Instruct good for mathematics?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct has source-displayable benchmark coverage for mathematics, but the public category table does not assign it a rank there. The individual rows remain available for inspection. A missing category position means the evidence threshold was not met; it does not convert the model's unmeasured work into a zero.
Is Kanana-2 3B Instruct good for instruction following?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct has source-displayable benchmark coverage for instruction following, but the public category table does not assign it a rank there. The individual rows remain available for inspection. A missing category position means the evidence threshold was not met; it does not convert the model's unmeasured work into a zero.
How does Kanana-2 3B Instruct perform on Korean benchmarks?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct has 1 source-displayable Korean benchmark score on this profile. Those rows remain separate from the global overall score because regional evaluations use a different comparison set. Use the dedicated Korean tables for side-by-side positions and inspect each source before applying the result elsewhere.
Is Kanana-2 3B Instruct open source?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct is an open-weight model from Kakao. Its weights can be downloaded for local or hosted deployment, subject to the published license. Open weight does not automatically mean open source: training data and training code may remain private, and commercial restrictions can still apply.
Which sibling models are related to Kanana-2 3B Instruct?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct belongs to the Kanana 2 family. Related tracked variants include Kanana-2 1.3B Instruct. A sibling link indicates shared lineage or a documented configuration relationship; it does not mean the variants have identical pricing, context limits, benchmark evidence, or deployment behavior. Compare before switching.
Does Kanana-2 3B Instruct have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?
No. Kanana-2 3B Instruct currently has 4 source-displayable rows across 434 tracked benchmark slots. The profile exposes published, non-generated evidence and leaves missing categories blank until an exact evaluation is available. Coverage describes how much was measured; it is not a penalty added to an individual benchmark result.
What is the context window size of Kanana-2 3B Instruct?
Kanana-2 3B Instruct has a documented context window of 32K. That figure is the maximum combined prompt and retained-conversation space reported for this exact model; it is not the maximum output length. The profile keeps output limits separate because providers often publish those limits independently.
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