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Llama 3.2 Vision 11b vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Compare Llama 3.2 Vision 11b and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, and Open Prompt.

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Llama 3.2 Vision 11b vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Comparison Table

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

PropertyLlama 3.2 Vision 11bQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
OrganizationMetaQwen
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateSep 2024Oct 2025
Context Window128K262K
Parameters11B31B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.130
Output $/1M$0.520
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
ClassificationDemo
Object Detection
Model Features
Multimodal Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities

Llama 3.2 Vision 11b vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: Overview

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.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal large language model developed by Alibaba as part of the Qwen family, built for instruction-following tasks that unify text generation with visual and video understanding. Released around October 2025 under the Apache-2.0 license, it targets efficient, high-fidelity vision-language reasoning across very long contexts.

The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, with strong performance in OCR, spatial reasoning, long-video understanding, and agentic or GUI-centric visual tasks. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (A3B) design with ~31.1B total parameters and ~3B active per token, paired with Qwen3-VL’s unified multimodal stack (including Interleaved-MRoPE and DeepStack fusion) to process text, images, and video in a single architecture. OCR support expands to 32 languages, enhancing document workflows. With a native ~262K token context window (extendable further), it stands out today for its balance of scale, efficiency, long-context support, and open accessibility in multimodal systems.