AI Models with Vision

164 multimodal AI models that support image input and visual understanding, ranked by composite score. These models can analyze images, screenshots, diagrams, and documents alongside text prompts.

Vision Models

164

Of All Models

48%

Providers

Avg Score

Vision Model Rankings

All 164 models with vision capability, sorted by composite score. Score is computed from capabilities, pricing, context window, recency, output capacity, and versatility.

#	Model	Provider	Score	Context	Input/1M	Output/1M
1	Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)Anthropic	Anthropic	89.5	1M	$30.00	$150.00
2	GPT-5.5 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	89.5	1.1M	$30.00	$180.00
3	Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)Anthropic	Anthropic	89.5	1M	$30.00	$150.00
4	GPT-5.4 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	89.5	1.1M	$30.00	$180.00
5	GPT-5.2 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	88.2	400K	$21.00	$168.00
6	GPT-5 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	86.4	400K	$15.00	$120.00
7	o3 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	77.4	200K	$20.00	$80.00
8	Claude Fable Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	77	1M	$10.00	$50.00
9	Claude Fable 5Anthropic	Anthropic	77	1M	$10.00	$50.00
10	Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)Anthropic	Anthropic	77	1M	$10.00	$50.00
11	Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic	Anthropic	76.8	200K	$15.00	$75.00
12	o1-proOpenAI	OpenAI	76.5	200K	$150.00	$600.00
13	OpenAI GPT Latest~openai	~openai	72	1.1M	$5.00	$30.00
14	GPT-5.5OpenAI	OpenAI	72	1.1M	$5.00	$30.00
15	Claude Opus 4Anthropic	Anthropic	71.2	200K	$15.00	$75.00
16	Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic	Anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
17	Claude Opus Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
18	Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic	Anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
19	Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
20	o3 Deep ResearchOpenAI	OpenAI	70.7	200K	$10.00	$40.00
21	Google Gemini Pro Latest~google	~google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
22	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle	Google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
23	Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
24	Fugu Ultrasakana	sakana	70.3	1M	$5.00	$30.00
25	Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle	Google	69.6	1.0M	$1.50	$9.00
26	Google Gemini Flash Latest~google	~google	69.6	1.0M	$1.50	$9.00
27	GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI	OpenAI	68.7	272K	$8.00	$15.00
28	GPT-5.4OpenAI	OpenAI	68.3	1.1M	$2.50	$15.00
29	Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	68.2	1M	$3.00	$15.00
30	Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	68.2	1M	$3.00	$15.00
31	Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle	Google	67.9	1.0M	$0.50	$3.00
32	Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	67.9	200K	$5.00	$25.00
33	Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	67.7	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
34	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle	Google	67.7	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
35	o1OpenAI	OpenAI	67.6	200K	$15.00	$60.00
36	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google	Google	67.5	65.5K	$2.00	$12.00
37	GPT Chat LatestOpenAI	OpenAI	67.5	400K	$5.00	$30.00
38	GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	67.1	400K	$1.75	$14.00
39	GPT-5.2OpenAI	OpenAI	66.7	400K	$1.75	$14.00
40	Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Google	Google	66.2	262.1K	Free	Free
41	GPT-5 ImageOpenAI	OpenAI	65.8	400K	$10.00	$10.00
42	GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	65.4	400K	$1.75	$14.00
43	Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	65.3	1M	$3.00	$15.00
44	Gemma 4 31B (free)Google	Google	65.2	262.1K	Free	Free
45	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google	Google	65	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
46	GPT-5.1OpenAI	OpenAI	64.9	400K	$1.25	$10.00
47	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	64.7	256K	Free	Free
48	OpenAI GPT Mini Latest~openai	~openai	64.7	400K	$0.75	$4.50
49	GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	64.7	400K	$0.75	$4.50
50	Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle	Google	64.6	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
51	GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	63.9	400K	$0.20	$1.25
52	GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI	OpenAI	63.9	400K	$1.25	$10.00
53	GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	63.8	400K	$2.50	$2.00
54	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	63.7	200K	$1.00	$5.00
55	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google	Google	63.5	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
56	GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	63.3	400K	$1.25	$10.00
57	Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	63.2	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
58	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google	Google	63	65.5K	$2.00	$12.00
59	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google	Google	62.8	131.1K	$0.50	$3.00
60	Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle	Google	62.8	1.0M	$0.30	$2.50
61	o4 Mini Deep ResearchOpenAI	OpenAI	62.7	200K	$2.00	$8.00
62	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google	Google	62.6	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
63	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google	Google	62.3	131.1K	$0.50	$3.00
64	GPT-5OpenAI	OpenAI	62.3	400K	$1.25	$10.00
65	MiniMax M3MiniMax	MiniMax	62.2	1.0M	$0.30	$1.20
66	GPT-5 CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	61.9	400K	$1.25	$10.00
67	Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	61.8	200K	$1.00	$5.00
68	Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	61.3	128K	Free	Free
69	GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	61.1	400K	$0.25	$2.00
70	Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba	Alibaba	61	262.1K	$0.29	$3.17
71	GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	61	128K	$1.75	$14.00
72	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Alibaba	Alibaba	60.9	1M	$0.30	$1.80
73	Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba	Alibaba	60.9	1M	$0.33	$1.95
74	Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	60.8	1.0M	Free	Free
75	Lyria 3 Clip PreviewGoogle	Google	60.8	1.0M	Free	Free
76	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba	Alibaba	60.8	1M	$0.26	$1.56
77	Qwen3.6 FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	60.7	1M	$0.19	$1.13
78	Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.7	262.1K	$0.26	$2.08
79	GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	60.6	128K	$1.75	$14.00
80	Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	60.5	1M	$0.07	$0.26
81	Step 3.7 FlashStepFun	StepFun	60.4	256K	$0.20	$1.15
82	Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.4	262.1K	$0.14	$1.00
83	GLM 5V TurboZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	60.4	202.8K	$1.20	$4.00
84	Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.4	262.1K	$0.14	$1.00
85	Gemma 4 31BGoogle	Google	60.3	262.1K	$0.12	$0.35
86	GPT-5 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	60.3	400K	$0.25	$2.00
87	Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance	ByteDance	60.2	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
88	Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.2	262.1K	$0.10	$0.15
89	Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance	ByteDance	59.8	262.1K	$0.10	$0.40
90	Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba	Alibaba	59.6	262.1K	$0.20	$1.56
91	MoonshotAI Kimi Latest~moonshotai	~moonshotai	59.4	262.1K	$0.66	$3.41
92	Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	59.4	262.1K	$0.66	$3.41
93	GPT-5.1 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	59.3	128K	$1.25	$10.00
94	Grok 4.20xAI	xAI	59.2	2M	$1.25	$2.50
95	Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba	Alibaba	59.1	1M	$0.32	$1.28
96	Seed 1.6ByteDance	ByteDance	59.1	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
97	Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance	ByteDance	58.7	262.1K	$0.07	$0.30
98	Nova 2 LiteAmazon	Amazon	58.5	1M	$0.30	$2.50
99	Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic	Anthropic	58.2	1M	$3.00	$15.00
100	Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity	Perplexity	57.9	200K	$3.00	$15.00
101	o3OpenAI	OpenAI	57.9	200K	$2.00	$8.00
102	GLM 4.6VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	57.8	131.1K	$0.30	$0.90
103	Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI	Moonshot AI	57.4	262.1K	$0.74	$3.50
104	o4 Mini HighOpenAI	OpenAI	57	200K	$1.10	$4.40
105	o4 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	57	200K	$1.10	$4.40
106	Grok 4.3xAI	xAI	56.9	1M	$1.25	$2.50
107	MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi	Xiaomi	56.2	1.0M	$0.10	$0.28
108	Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	55.7	128K	Free	Free
109	Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentxAI	xAI	55.7	2M	$1.25	$2.50
110	Grok Build 0.1xAI	xAI	55.5	256K	$1.00	$2.00
111	Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	55.3	256K	$0.12	$1.36
112	Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI	Mistral AI	55	262.1K	$1.50	$7.50
113	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	54.5	131.1K	$0.13	$1.56
114	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	54.5	131.1K	$0.26	$2.60
115	Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google	Google	54.2	32.8K	$0.30	$2.50
116	Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba	Alibaba	53.7	256K	$0.39	$2.45
117	GPT-5 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	53.4	400K	$0.05	$0.40
118	GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	53.4	1.0M	$0.40	$1.60
119	Gemma 4 26B A4B Google	Google	53.2	262.1K	$0.06	$0.33
120	GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	53.1	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
121	Nova Premier 1.0Amazon	Amazon	52.7	1M	$2.50	$12.50
122	GPT-5 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	52.6	128K	$1.25	$10.00
123	Perceptron Mk1perceptron	perceptron	52.5	32.8K	$0.15	$1.50
124	Reka Edgerekaai	rekaai	52	16.4K	$0.10	$0.10
125	Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	52	262.1K	$0.38	$2.02
126	GLM 4.5VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	51.9	65.5K	$0.60	$1.80
127	Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	51.8	262.1K	$0.10	$0.42
128	Mistral Small 4Mistral AI	Mistral AI	51.6	262.1K	$0.15	$0.60
129	Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	51.5	256K	$0.08	$0.50
130	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	51.4	262.1K	$0.13	$0.52
131	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	50.6	262.1K	$0.20	$0.88
132	GPT-4.1OpenAI	OpenAI	49.5	1.0M	$2.00	$8.00
133	Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	49.3	262.1K	$0.50	$1.50
134	Llama 4 ScoutMeta	Meta	49.2	10M	$0.10	$0.30
135	Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	47.3	262.1K	$0.20	$0.20
136	Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	47.3	262.1K	$0.15	$0.15
137	Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	47.2	128K	$0.07	$0.20
138	Llama 4 MaverickMeta	Meta	47.1	1.0M	$0.15	$0.60
139	Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	46.6	131.1K	$0.10	$0.10
140	Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI	Mistral AI	45.7	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
141	GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI	OpenAI	45.5	128K	$2.50	$10.00
142	Gemma 3 12BGoogle	Google	44.5	131.1K	$0.05	$0.15
143	Gemma 3 27BGoogle	Google	44.4	131.1K	$0.08	$0.16
144	Sonar ProPerplexity	Perplexity	44.3	200K	$3.00	$15.00
145	ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu	Baidu	44.1	131.1K	$0.42	$1.25
146	GPT-4 TurboOpenAI	OpenAI	43.8	128K	$10.00	$30.00
147	Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI	Mistral AI	43.1	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
148	UI-TARS 7B ByteDance	ByteDance	43	128K	$0.10	$0.20
149	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI	OpenAI	42.6	128K	$2.50	$10.00
150	Llama Guard 4 12BMeta	Meta	42.4	163.8K	$0.18	$0.18
151	GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI	OpenAI	41.7	128K	$5.00	$15.00
152	Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	41.5	131.1K	$0.80	$1.00
153	GPT-4oOpenAI	OpenAI	41.4	128K	$2.50	$10.00
154	Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity	Perplexity	41.2	128K	$2.00	$8.00
155	Gemma 3 4BGoogle	Google	40.9	131.1K	$0.05	$0.10
156	MiniMax-01MiniMax	MiniMax	40.9	1.0M	$0.20	$1.10
157	GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI	OpenAI	39.7	128K	$0.15	$0.60
158	GPT-4o-miniOpenAI	OpenAI	39.7	128K	$0.15	$0.60
159	Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	39	128K	$0.35	$0.55
160	Nova Pro 1.0Amazon	Amazon	38.9	300K	$0.80	$3.20
161	Nova Lite 1.0Amazon	Amazon	38.2	300K	$0.06	$0.24
162	Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic	Anthropic	37	200K	$0.25	$1.25
163	Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMeta	Meta	36.3	131.1K	$0.34	$0.34
164	SonarPerplexity	Perplexity	34.8	127.1K	$1.00	$1.00

What Else Can Vision Models Do?

Vision-capable models often support additional capabilities. Here is how the 164 vision models break down by other features.

Function Calling

84%

138 of 164 vision models

JSON Mode

90%

148 of 164 vision models

Streaming

100%

164 of 164 vision models

Reasoning

71%

117 of 164 vision models

Web Search

53%

87 of 164 vision models

Image Output

8 of 164 vision models

Top Providers of Vision Models

Which providers offer the most AI models with image understanding capabilities.

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Top Vision Models - Full Capability Breakdown

Detailed capability matrix for the top 15 vision models by composite score.

Model	Function Calling	JSON Mode	Streaming	Reasoning	Web Search	Image Output
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) Anthropic
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) Anthropic
GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5 Pro OpenAI
o3 Pro OpenAI
Claude Fable Latest ~anthropic
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic
o1-pro OpenAI
OpenAI GPT Latest ~openai
GPT-5.5 OpenAI
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

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What Are Vision / Multimodal AI Models?

Vision-capable AI models (also called multimodal models) can process both text and images as input. Instead of being limited to text-only prompts, these models can understand photos, screenshots, charts, diagrams, handwritten notes, and other visual content.

How Vision Input Works

You send an image (as a URL or base64-encoded data) alongside your text prompt via the API. The model processes both together, allowing it to answer questions about the image, describe its contents, extract text (OCR), analyze charts, or reason about visual information.

Common Use Cases for Vision Models

Document analysis and OCR, screenshot-to-code generation, chart and graph interpretation, medical image analysis, accessibility (image descriptions), visual QA for customer support, UI/UX review, diagram-to-code conversion, and real-time visual understanding in agentic workflows.

Vision vs. Image Output

Vision (image input) and image output are distinct capabilities. Vision means the model can see and understand images you send to it. Image output means the model can generate new images. Some models support both, but many vision models are text-output only - they analyze images but respond with text.

Pricing Considerations

Image tokens typically cost more than text tokens. A single high-resolution image can consume thousands of tokens. Most providers charge for image input based on the image dimensions and detail level. Check each model's specific pricing for image token costs.

Explore More Model Comparisons

Dive deeper into model capabilities, rankings, and head-to-head comparisons to find the right vision model for your use case.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Vision AI models (multimodal LLMs) can understand and analyze images alongside text. They accept image inputs and can describe photos, extract text from screenshots, analyze charts, and answer questions about visual content.

The top vision models include GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Flash. Rankings change frequently as models improve — check our leaderboard for the latest scores.

Not all of them. Vision capabilities refer to understanding images (input). Some models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion specialize in generating images (output). A few models like GPT-4o can both understand and generate images.