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Llama 3.2 90B Vision vs Llama 4 405B

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Llama 3.2 90B Vision specs · Llama 4 405B specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceTie

    Neither model publishes per-token API pricing.

  • Context windowLlama 4 405B

    Llama 4 405B accepts 256K tokens vs 128K, 2.0× the room for long documents and codebases.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesTie

    Both handle text, vision.

  • OpennessTie

    Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

On balance Llama 4 405B edges ahead, winning 1 of 5 categories against Llama 3.2 90B Vision's 0. Neither model publishes per-token API pricing. Llama 4 405B accepts 256K tokens vs 128K, 2.0× the room for long documents and codebases.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text, vision), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

Llama 4 405B is the newer of the two, released 6 months after Llama 3.2 90B Vision, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Llama 3.2 90B Vision is usually picked for vision and open source llm workloads, while Llama 4 405B sees more deployments in open source llm and fine tuning. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecLlama 3.2 90B VisionLlama 4 405B
ProviderMetaMeta
ReleasedSep 2024Apr 2025
Modalitiestext, visiontext, vision
Context window128K tokens256K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Output · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,2024-12
Open weightsYes (Llama 3 Community License)Yes (Llama 4 Community License)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Llama 3.2 90B VisionPricing unavailable
  • Llama 4 405BPricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.
Pick Llama 3.2 90B Vision if

Llama 3.2 90B Vision fits when…

  • First Llama with vision
  • 90B-class quality
Pick Llama 4 405B if

Llama 4 405B fits when…

  • Strongest open-weight model at launch
  • Multimodal (text + vision)
  • Wide hosting availability
  • Long-context tasks, handles 256K tokens vs 128K for Llama 3.2 90B Vision.
Don't want either?

Consider Llama 4 70B

Meta's mid-tier Llama 4, the practical workhorse for self-hosted deployments.

See Llama 4 70B specsLlama 3.2 90B Vision vs Llama 4 70BLlama 4 405B vs Llama 4 70B

Frequently asked

  • Is Llama 3.2 90B Vision or Llama 4 405B cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Llama 4 405B accepts 256K tokens vs 128K for Llama 3.2 90B Vision.
  • Is Llama 3.2 90B Vision or Llama 4 405B better for coding?
    Both Llama 3.2 90B Vision and Llama 4 405B are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Both ship with open weights. Llama 3.2 90B Vision is licensed under Llama 3 Community License; Llama 4 405B under Llama 4 Community License.
  • When were Llama 3.2 90B Vision and Llama 4 405B released?
    Llama 3.2 90B Vision was released by Meta on 2024-09-25. Llama 4 405B was released by Meta on 2025-04-05.
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