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GPT-5 Mini vs Llama 3.2 Vision 11b

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GPT-5 Mini vs Llama 3.2 Vision 11b Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

PropertyGPT-5 MiniLlama 3.2 Vision 11b
OrganizationOpenAIMeta
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateAug 2025Sep 2024
Context Window400K128K
Parameters11B
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.250
Output $/1M$2.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
ClassificationDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemo
Model Features
Multimodal Vision
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities

GPT-5 Mini vs Llama 3.2 Vision 11b: Overview

GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a mid-tier variant of the GPT-5 family that balances cost, speed, and capability. It is multimodal, supporting both text and image inputs, and offers a substantial input context window of ~400,000 tokens with output lengths up to ~128,000 tokens. While less powerful than the full GPT-5, it inherits its safety tuning, instruction-following improvements, and multimodal reasoning, making it a practical choice for developers who need large context handling without the expense of premium models.

GPT-5 Mini is optimized for affordability while retaining strong reasoning performance. Benchmarks show it outperforming earlier models such as GPT-4o on many multimodal and medical VQA tasks, though it lags behind GPT-5 on the most complex problems. Ideal use cases include prototyping, scalable content generation, document analysis, and mid-range reasoning tasks where efficiency and context capacity matter more than top-tier accuracy.

Llama 3.2 Vision 11b

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B, released by Meta on September 25, 2024, is the first mid-sized model in the Llama family with vision capabilities, supporting both text and image inputs with text-only outputs. It contains around 11 billion parameters (~10.6B) and features a 128,000-token context window, making it suitable for multimodal reasoning over long documents and image-text tasks. The model was trained on ~6 billion image–text pairs and has a knowledge cutoff of December 2023.

The model is available in a base and an instruction-tuned (“Vision-Instruct”) version, optimized for tasks like captioning, visual question answering, and image reasoning. It leverages Group-Query Attention (GQA) for improved inference efficiency and scalability. While text tasks officially support multiple languages (English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Thai), multimodal (image+text) tasks are supported primarily in English. Llama 3.2 Vision 11B is accessible through Hugging Face, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, NVIDIA NIM, and OCI, making it a widely deployable open-weight multimodal foundation model.