Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct
Best for beginners. Describe what you want in a chat and the picture comes back, no learning curve.
Images and video from a chat, with short commands. The most convenient tool for Telegram users, with a web companion.
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Best for communities. Add it to your own server and run any workflow from a channel.
One screen for every model and workflow: prompts, references, edits and video, built into your Graydient account.
Set up local programs if your computer has capable hardware.
Generate the same prompt on up to 50 checkpoint/base models at a time.
Captain's notes
Known for
- Strong image captioning and visual question answering at 90B scale
- Handles complex image-text comprehension tasks in a single call
- Pre-trained on multimodal data, then fine-tuned with human feedback
- Low cost relative to its parameter count: $0.35/M input, $0.40/M output
Watch out for
- Weights are not publicly released; you access this model via API only, no local deployment.
- Context window is 32,768 tokens — adequate but not generous for long document plus image work.
- The 11B sibling costs less; only reach for 90B if the smaller model falls short on your task.
Prompts to try
Compare with
- SonarAPI-only model127,072 token context · $1.00/M input, $1.00/M output
- Auto RouterAPI-only model2,000,000 token context · $-1,000,000.00/M input, $-1,000,000.00/M output
- Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructOpen-weights model327,680 token context · $0.10/M input, $0.30/M output
- GPT-6 LunaAPI-only model1,050,000 token context · $0.10/M input, $0.50/M output
Questions people ask
- Can I run Llama 3.2 90B Vision locally?
- No. Meta has not released the weights for this model, so it is API-only and cannot be run on your own hardware.
- What does it cost and how long is the context?
- It is priced at $0.35 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens, with a 32,768-token context window.
- How does the 90B differ from the 11B Vision model?
- Both handle image and text tasks, but the 90B is the larger, higher-accuracy option; the 11B is cheaper and faster, worth trying first if your workload is straightforward.
Captain's verdictA capable, fairly priced vision model for teams with real multimodal workloads — just confirm the 11B can't handle the job before paying for the extra scale.
Glossary: the terms used here
- Heat score
- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
- Adoption rate
- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
- Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
- AI Horde
- A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
- Generation sites
- Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
- OpenRouter tokens
- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
- The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
- LoRA and embedding
- Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
- Family and weights
- The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
- Trend
- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.







