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Llama 3.2 Vision 90b vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Compare Llama 3.2 Vision 90b and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, OCR, Open Prompt, and Classification.

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MetaLlama 3.2 Vision 90b

Llama 3.2 Vision 90b is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.

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Llama 3.2 Vision 90b vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Comparison Table

Evals updated August 20, 2026Pricing updated August 24, 2026

PropertyLlama 3.2 Vision 90bQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
OrganizationMetaQwen
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateSep 2024Sep 2025
Context Window128K256K
Parameters90B235B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.210
Output $/1M$1.90
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
OCRDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Object DetectionDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallDeprecated
65.8%
Avg cost / sample$0.0007
Avg speed / sample9.17s
By task
Object Detection
52.1%
$0.0014
Counting
47.3%
$0.0002
Identification
90.6%
$0.0002
OCR
88.1%
$0.0010
Data Extraction
86.6%
$0.0002
Reasoning (low)
29.8%
$0.0002
Reasoning (high)
33.8%
$0.0002

Llama 3.2 Vision 90b vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: Overview

Llama 3.2 Vision 90b

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.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is a flagship multimodal vision-language model developed by Qwen (Alibaba Cloud), designed for instruction-following tasks that combine advanced text generation with visual understanding. It serves as a high-end open-weight model for developers and researchers building multimodal AI systems that require strong reasoning, perception, and long-context capabilities.

The model supports interleaved text and image inputs, very long context windows (up to roughly 256K tokens), and efficient inference through a mixture-of-experts architecture with about 22B active parameters out of 235B total. In today’s landscape, it competes with top-tier proprietary vision-language models while offering the advantages of open weights and flexible deployment. Typical applications include multimodal assistants, document and image analysis, visual reasoning, and large-context instruction-based workflows.