# llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview — End-of-Life — shutdown 04/14/25

For llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is April 7, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 04/14/25; recommended replacement is meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Deprecation announced:** April 7, 2025 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 04/14/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | llama-3.2-11b-vision-preview          | 04/14/25      | meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct                         |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Deprecation announced

> In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on April 7, 2025, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of several older preview models in favor of Meta's Llama 4 suite. The new Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models deliver exceptional multimodal performance that outpaces our previous offerings, enabling your applications to harness state-of-the-art AI capabilities with unparalleled speed on our platform.

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).