Llama 3.2 11B Vision.
Meta's open-weight multimodal LLM — vision + text in 11B.
1× AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT.
Most-aggressive quantisation we have a working recommendation for. Lower precision = less VRAM = cheaper hardware, at a small accuracy cost.
Cheapest hosted endpoints.
| Provider | Access | $/M in | $/M out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | api aggregator | $0.245 | $0.245 | Launch ↗ |
Speed across providers.
Tokens/sec and time-to-first-token measured against the same prompt template on each provider's API.
| Provider | Tokens/sec | TTFT | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | 40.9 | 630 ms | 2546 ms |
Variants in the Llama family.
Meta's best-in-class open-weight LLM — 70B class.
Llama 3.1 70B — production workhorse, superseded by 3.3 but still widely depl...
Meta's most popular open-weight small LLM — fits anywhere.
Meta's largest open-weight LLM — dense 405B, frontier-class at launch.
Meta's largest vision-capable Llama.
3B Llama — laptop-class chat + RAG.
Meta's smallest Llama — mobile + on-device target.
Frequently asked.
How do I run Llama 3.2 11B Vision?
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How much does it cost to run Llama 3.2 11B Vision?
Is Llama 3.2 11B Vision open-source or proprietary?
Cheapest hardware per quantisation.
Each row is one quantisation tier (the same weights compressed differently). Lower precision → lower VRAM → cheaper hardware, at the cost of small accuracy loss. $/hr refreshed hourly from each provider's API.
| Quantisation | Cheapest GPU config | Total VRAM | Live $/hr | tokens/sec | |
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FP16
FP16 — half precision (default)
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24 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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FP8
FP8 — 8-bit float (Hopper / Blackwell)
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16 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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INT4
INT4 — 4-bit integer (~4× VRAM saving)
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8 GB | — | — | Compare → |
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for Llama 3.2 11B Vision across every host that publishes per-token pricing. Slide your token volumes; the chart + table re-rank cheapest-first.
Cheapest provider on the left.
Total monthly cost — input + output tokens combined.
Bill breakdown.
| Provider | Monthly total | |
|---|---|---|
| $2.94 | Sign up ↗ |
Rent the GPU instead of paying per token.
For an open-weights model like Llama 3.2 11B Vision, you can rent a GPU and serve inference yourself. The math: cheapest GPU rental × 730 hours/month + your electricity rate × power draw.
Assumes the GPU runs 24/7 at ~85% utilisation. If your traffic is bursty, you'll pay less for the API and probably more for the GPU (idle hours still cost rental). The breakeven analysis lives on the Self-host vs API breakeven tool.
What it's best at.
Scores normalised against benchmark ceilings (100 = perfect). Coloured by tier — coral 80+ frontier, lavender 65+ strong, sage 50+ solid, slate below.
About Llama 3.2 11B Vision.
Llama 3.2 11B Vision is Meta's first open-weight multimodal LLM in the 11B range. Vision encoder bolted onto the Llama text backbone via cross-attention adapters (not native multimodal training). Strong on chart understanding and document OCR; weaker than GPT-4o or Gemini on photorealistic image reasoning. Runs on a single 24GB GPU (RTX 4090 / RTX 5090) at INT4 — much more accessible than the 90B sibling for hobbyist multimodal work.