Llama 3.2
Multimodal and lightweight Llama models by Meta including vision and text-only variants.
About
Llama 3.2 extends Meta's Llama family in two directions: lightweight text only models at 1B and 3B parameters aimed at on-device and edge deployment, and multimodal vision models at 11B and 90B that add image understanding and visual reasoning. All variants carry a 128K token context length and TikToken based tokenization, and quantized options including FP8 and Int4 reduce memory requirements for phones and other constrained hardware. The meta-llama/llama-models repository hosts the tokenizers, CLI tools, download flow, and inference examples for the family. Distribution follows the Llama 3.2 Community License, which allows research and commercial use after license acceptance, with weights also available through Hugging Face and major cloud platforms. Mobile and edge developers reach for the small models to power local assistants, while the vision variants handle document understanding, captioning, and other image plus text workloads.
Should you use Llama 3.2?
Pick it when
Pick this for on-device assistants on phones or edge boxes with the 1B or 3B models and Int4 or FP8 quantization, or for document and image understanding with the 11B or 90B vision variants.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it if you need permissive terms or small models that also see images: the text-only small sizes and the vision sizes are separate lines under the Llama 3.2 Community License. Gemma 4 is Apache-2.0 with image input even at E2B.
Alternatives to Llama 3.2
- Gemma 4
Apache-2.0 with image input on every size and audio on E2B and E4B, so the small edge models are multimodal too.
- SmolLM
Apache-2.0 with published datasets and recipe, and 135M and 360M sizes below Llama 3.2's 1B for tight edge budgets, but text-only.
- Phi-3
MIT-licensed 3.8B to 14B with 128K context variants, a permissive step up in size from Llama 3.2 3B for edge reasoning.
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Details
- Category
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- Llama 3.2 Community
- Minimum VRAM
- 4 GB
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026