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Llama 3.2 Vision 11b Overview

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.

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Llama 3.2 Vision 11b Details & Performance

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Vision LanguageOCRVisual Question AnsweringClassificationCaptioning

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Multimodal Vision

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Llama 3.2 Vision 11b Pricing

Llama 3.2 Vision 11b costs $0.345 per 1M input tokens and $0.345 per 1M output tokens.

Input$0.345 / 1M tokens
Output$0.345 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Jul 12, 2026

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