Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct

Name: Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct
Brand: Azure AI Foundry
Price: 2.040000 USD

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct: Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct is cheaper by 86% on average. Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (1,000,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct from Azure AI Foundry (128,000-token context, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,000,000

Output tokens / request400

064,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Azure AI Foundry

$2,283/mo

Input $3.00/M · Output $15.00/M

Llama 3.2 90B Vision InstructCheaper

Azure AI Foundry

$1,056/mo

Input $2.04/M · Output $2.04/M

At this workload, Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct is 54% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 — a savings of $1,227/month ($14,727/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
fallback:
  model: claude-sonnet-4-6
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Sonnet 4.6 Azure AI Foundry	Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Azure AI Foundry
Input price	$3.00/M	$2.04/M
Output price	$15.00/M	$2.04/M
Context window	1,000,000	128,000
Max output	64,000	2,048
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	—
Prompt caching	✓	—
Structured output	✓	—
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026