Llama 3.2 Vision 90b vs Qwen VL Max

Llama 3.2 Vision 90B, released by Meta AI on September 25, 2024, is the largest vision-capable model in the Llama 3.2 family. With about 90 billion parameters (~88.8B) and a 128,000-token context window, it is designed for high-performance multimodal reasoning over images and text, while producing only text outputs. The model was trained on ~6 billion image–text pairs and instruction-tuned (SFT + RLHF), with a knowledge cutoff of December 2023.

It powers tasks like visual question answering, captioning, and image-grounded reasoning, and achieves strong benchmark performance compared to both open and proprietary models. The model officially supports English for multimodal (image+text) tasks, while text-only inputs extend to eight languages (including German, French, Hindi, and Spanish). Due to its large parameter size, it requires substantial compute resources but is accessible via cloud providers like Amazon Bedrock, Oracle Cloud, and Azure AI Foundry. While highly capable, it is limited to text-only outputs and has stricter multilingual support for vision-based inputs.

Qwen-VL-Max is a proprietary vision-language model developed by Alibaba’s QwenLM team. Released on February 1, 2025, it is the flagship offering in the Qwen-VL family and sits above the VL-Plus tier in capability.

The model supports text and image inputs and provides a context window of up to 131,072 tokens (with a maximum input size of 129,024 tokens), according to Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. While the parameter count for VL-Max has not been publicly disclosed, the broader Qwen2.5-VL series includes open-weight models scaling up to 72B parameters.

Qwen-VL-Max is optimized for advanced multimodal applications such as document parsing, visual reasoning, multilingual analysis, and structured data extraction. Unlike the open Qwen2.5-VL variants, VL-Max is not available as open weights.