AI Models with Vision

Q: What are vision AI models?

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.

Q: Which AI model has the best vision capabilities?

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.

Q: Can vision AI models generate images?

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.

308 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

308

Of All Models

66%

Providers

Avg Score

Vision Model Rankings

All 308 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	GPT-5.5 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	90.1	1.1M	$30.00	$180.00
2	GPT-5.4 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	88.7	1.1M	$30.00	$180.00
3	GPT-5.5 Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	87.6	1.1M	$15.00	$90.00
4	GPT-5.4 Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	86.2	1.1M	$15.00	$90.00
5	GPT-5.2 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	85.4	400K	$21.00	$168.00
6	GPT-5 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	83.6	400K	$15.00	$120.00
7	GPT-5.2 Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	81.4	400K	$10.50	$84.00
8	GPT Astra Latest~openai	~openai	78.1	1.1M	$10.00	$50.00
9	GPT-6 AstraOpenAI	OpenAI	78.1	1.1M	$10.00	$50.00
10	GPT-6 Astra ProOpenAI	OpenAI	78.1	1.1M	$10.00	$50.00
11	Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic	Anthropic	78	1M	$10.00	$50.00
12	Claude Fable Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	78	1M	$10.00	$50.00
13	Claude Fable 5Anthropic	Anthropic	78	1M	$10.00	$50.00
14	Muse Wondermeta	meta	75.3	1.0M	$4.00	$20.00
15	o3 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	74.5	200K	$20.00	$80.00
16	Crouton Alphastealth	stealth	74.2	1.0M	Free	Free
17	GPT-5 Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	73.6	400K	$7.50	$60.00
18	Fugu Ultra v2sakana	sakana	73	1M	$5.00	$30.00
19	Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle	Google	72.8	1.0M	$2.00	$10.00
20	GPT-5.5OpenAI	OpenAI	72.6	1.1M	$5.00	$30.00
21	Gemini Pro Latest~google	~google	72.4	1.0M	$2.00	$10.00
22	GPT-6 Astra (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	71.8	1.1M	$5.00	$25.00
23	GPT-6 Astra Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	71.8	1.1M	$5.00	$25.00
24	Claude Fable 5.1 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	71.8	1M	$5.00	$25.00
25	Claude Opus 5Anthropic	Anthropic	71.8	1M	$5.00	$25.00
26	Claude Fable 5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	71.8	1M	$5.00	$25.00
27	Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic	Anthropic	71.8	1M	$5.00	$25.00
28	Gemini 4 Argon (batch)Google	Google	71.6	1.0M	$1.00	$5.00
29	Fugu Ultrasakana	sakana	71.4	1M	$5.00	$30.00
30	Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic	Anthropic	71.1	1M	$5.00	$25.00
31	Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle	Google	70.7	1.0M	$1.50	$9.00
32	GPT-5.6 Sol ProOpenAI	OpenAI	70.6	1.1M	$4.00	$20.00
33	GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI	OpenAI	70.6	1.1M	$4.00	$20.00
34	Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic	Anthropic	70.5	1M	$4.00	$20.00
35	Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic	Anthropic	70.4	200K	$15.00	$75.00
36	Claude Opus Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	70	1M	$4.00	$20.00
37	Muse Spark 1.3meta	meta	69.7	1.0M	$1.25	$4.25
38	Muse Spark 1.2meta	meta	69.7	1.0M	$1.25	$4.25
39	Muse Spark 1.1meta	meta	69.7	1.0M	$1.25	$4.25
40	Gemini 3.5 Flash (batch)Google	Google	69.6	1.0M	$0.75	$4.50
41	Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	69.5	1M	Free	Free
42	Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle	Google	69.5	1.0M	$0.83	$4.13
43	Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle	Google	69.4	1.0M	$0.75	$3.75
44	Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle	Google	69.4	1.0M	$0.75	$3.75
45	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle	Google	69.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
46	Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	69.2	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
47	Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	69.1	1.0M	$0.30	$2.50
48	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google	Google	69.1	131.1K	$2.00	$12.00
49	Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	69.1	1M	$5.00	$25.00
50	Gemini Flash Latest~google	~google	69	1.0M	$0.75	$3.75
51	GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI	OpenAI	69	272K	$8.00	$15.00
52	Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Google	Google	68.9	1.0M	$0.38	$1.88
53	Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)Google	Google	68.9	1.0M	$0.38	$1.88
54	Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Google	Google	68.9	1.0M	$0.38	$1.88
55	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Google	Google	68.8	1.0M	$0.15	$1.25
56	GPT-5.5 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	68.8	1.1M	$2.50	$15.00
57	Muse Spark 1.3 Contributormeta	meta	68.7	1.0M	$0.10	$0.20
58	Muse Spark 1.2 Contributormeta	meta	68.7	1.0M	$0.10	$0.20
59	Claude Opus 5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	68.7	1M	$2.50	$12.50
60	Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	68.7	1M	$2.50	$12.50
61	Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	68.7	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
62	GPT-5.6 Terra ProOpenAI	OpenAI	68.6	1.1M	$2.00	$12.00
63	GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI	OpenAI	68.6	1.1M	$2.00	$12.00
64	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)Google	Google	68.5	1.0M	$0.13	$0.75
65	GPT Chat LatestOpenAI	OpenAI	68.3	400K	$5.00	$30.00
66	GPT-6.1 Sol ProOpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
67	GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
68	GPT-6 Sol ProOpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
69	GPT-6 SolOpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
70	GPT Sol Latest~openai	~openai	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
71	GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
72	GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	68.1	1.1M	$2.00	$10.00
73	Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic	Anthropic	68	1M	$2.00	$10.00
74	Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	68	1M	$2.00	$10.00
75	Dots3-Note Preview (free)dots-studio	dots-studio	68	512K	Free	Free
76	Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic	Anthropic	68	1M	$2.00	$10.00
77	Claude Opus 4.7 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	67.9	1M	$2.50	$12.50
78	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch)Google	Google	67.7	1.0M	$1.00	$6.00
79	Nano Banana 2.1Google	Google	67.6	65.5K	$1.50	$7.50
80	Claude Sonnet Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	67.6	1M	$2.00	$10.00
81	Grok 4.20xAI	xAI	67.6	2M	$1.25	$2.50
82	GPT-5.4OpenAI	OpenAI	67.5	1.1M	$2.50	$15.00
83	Kimi K3Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	67.4	1.0M	$0.19	$16.00
84	Grok 4.7xAI	xAI	67.2	500K	$2.00	$6.00
85	Grok 4.6xAI	xAI	67.2	500K	$2.00	$6.00
86	Grok 4.5xAI	xAI	67.2	500K	$2.00	$6.00
87	Grok Latest~x-ai	~x-ai	67.2	500K	$2.00	$6.00
88	Grok 4.3xAI	xAI	67.2	1M	$1.25	$2.50
89	GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	67.1	1.1M	$1.00	$6.00
90	GPT-5.6 Terra (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	67.1	1.1M	$1.00	$6.00
91	Grok 4.3 (batch)xAI	xAI	67.1	1M	$1.00	$2.00
92	Fugu Maxsakana	sakana	67	1M	$2.00	$6.00
93	Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	67	1M	$3.00	$15.00
94	Grok 4.7 (batch)xAI	xAI	66.9	500K	$1.60	$4.80
95	Grok 4.6 (batch)xAI	xAI	66.9	500K	$1.60	$4.80
96	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle	Google	66.9	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
97	GPT-6.1 Terra ProOpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
98	GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
99	GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
100	GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
101	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	66.8	1M	$1.00	$5.00
102	GPT-6 Sol Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
103	GPT-6 Sol (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
104	GPT Terra Latest~openai	~openai	66.8	1.1M	$1.00	$5.00
105	Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	66.8	1M	$1.00	$5.00
106	Muse Spark Openmeta	meta	66.4	1.0M	$1.25	$4.25
107	GPT-6.1 Terra Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.2	1.1M	$0.50	$2.50
108	GPT-6.1 Terra (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	66.2	1.1M	$0.50	$2.50
109	Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Google	Google	66.1	262.1K	Free	Free
110	Gemma 4 31B (free)Google	Google	66	262.1K	Free	Free
111	GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	66	400K	$1.75	$14.00
112	Claude Opus 4.6 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	66	1M	$2.50	$12.50
113	Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI	Moonshot AI	65.9	1.0M	$2.00	$10.00
114	MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedXiaomi	Xiaomi	65.9	1.0M	$4.35	$8.70
115	GPT-5.6 Luna ProOpenAI	OpenAI	65.9	1.1M	$0.20	$1.20
116	GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI	OpenAI	65.9	1.1M	$0.20	$1.20
117	Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic	Anthropic	65.7	1M	$0.10	$0.50
118	GPT-6 Luna ProOpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.10	$0.50
119	GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.05	$0.25
120	GPT-6 LunaOpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.10	$0.50
121	GPT-6 Luna (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.05	$0.25
122	GPT Luna Latest~openai	~openai	65.7	1.1M	$0.10	$0.50
123	GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.10	$0.60
124	GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	1.1M	$0.10	$0.60
125	Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	65.6	1M	$0.05	$0.25
126	GPT-5.4 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	65.6	1.1M	$1.25	$7.50
127	Ember-1fireworks	fireworks	65.5	1.0M	$3.00	$15.00
128	Kimi Latest~moonshotai	~moonshotai	65.5	1.0M	$0.16	$10.15
129	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	65.3	256K	Free	Free
130	GPT Mini Latest~openai	~openai	65.3	400K	$0.75	$4.50
131	Claude Haiku Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	65.2	1M	$0.10	$0.50
132	Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle	Google	65.2	1.0M	$0.50	$3.00
133	Claude Sonnet 4.6 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	65.1	1M	$1.50	$7.50
134	Qwen3.8 Max PrimeAlibaba	Alibaba	65	1M	$4.00	$12.00
135	Grok Build 0.1xAI	xAI	65	256K	$1.00	$2.00
136	Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	65	200K	$5.00	$25.00
137	Kimi K3 (batch)Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	64.9	1.0M	$0.92	$6.00
138	Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch)Google	Google	64.8	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
139	Sakana Namazusakana	sakana	64.7	262.1K	$0.95	$4.00
140	Claude Opus 4.1 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	64.6	200K	$7.50	$37.50
141	GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	64.2	400K	$0.75	$4.50
142	Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentxAI	xAI	64	2M	$1.25	$2.50
143	MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi	Xiaomi	63.9	1.1M	$0.43	$0.87
144	GPT-5.2OpenAI	OpenAI	63.9	400K	$1.75	$14.00
145	MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi	Xiaomi	63.8	1.1M	$0.14	$0.28
146	Qwen3.8 Omni FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	63.8	1M	$0.15	$0.47
147	GPT-5.4 Mini (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	63.6	400K	$0.38	$2.25
148	Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA	NVIDIA	63.5	1.0M	$0.15	$0.50
149	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Alibaba	Alibaba	63.5	1M	$2.00	$6.00
150	GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	63.4	400K	$0.20	$1.25
151	MiniMax M3MiniMax	MiniMax	63.3	1.0M	$0.30	$1.20
152	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google	Google	63.2	131.1K	$0.50	$3.00
153	GPT-5.4 Nano (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	63.2	400K	$0.10	$0.63
154	GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	63.2	400K	$1.75	$14.00
155	MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMax	MiniMax	63.1	1.0M	$0.15	$0.60
156	MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi	Xiaomi	63.1	1M	$0.40	$2.00
157	GPT-5 ImageOpenAI	OpenAI	63	400K	$10.00	$10.00
158	Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba	Alibaba	62.9	1.0M	$0.15	$1.88
159	Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	62.7	1M	$3.00	$15.00
160	Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google	Google	62.6	65.5K	$0.25	$1.50
161	MiniMax M3 (batch)MiniMax	MiniMax	62.5	524.3K	$0.22	$0.88
162	Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI	Mistral AI	62.5	262.1K	$1.50	$7.50
163	GLM 5.3 FlashX LegalZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	62.3	1.0M	$0.37	$1.25
164	GLM 5.3 FlashXZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	62.3	1.0M	$0.37	$1.25
165	Step 5 PreviewStepFun	StepFun	62.2	1.0M	$1.00	$2.70
166	GPT-5.2 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	62.2	400K	$0.88	$7.00
167	GPT-5.1OpenAI	OpenAI	62.2	400K	$1.25	$10.00
168	GLM Flash Latest~z-ai	~z-ai	62.1	1.0M	$0.03	$0.08
169	Qwen3.8 FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	62.1	1M	$0.15	$0.47
170	GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	62.1	1.0M	$0.03	$0.08
171	GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)Zhipu AI	Zhipu AI	62.1	1.0M	$0.05	$0.18
172	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek	DeepSeek	62.1	1.0M	$0.44	$1.32
173	Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle	Google	62	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
174	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek	DeepSeek	61.9	1.0M	<$0.01	$0.50
175	DeepSeek Flash Latest~deepseek	~deepseek	61.9	1.0M	<$0.01	$0.50
176	DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek	DeepSeek	61.9	1.0M	$0.05	$0.57
177	Claude Opus 4.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	61.9	200K	$2.50	$12.50
178	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (batch)DeepSeek	DeepSeek	61.8	1.0M	$0.01	$0.20
179	Glimpseelorian	elorian	61.8	262.1K	$0.60	$3.00
180	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)DeepSeek	DeepSeek	61.8	1.0M	$0.01	$0.20
181	Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance	ByteDance	61.6	262.1K	$0.50	$2.50
182	Qwen3.8 27B (batch)Alibaba	Alibaba	61.5	262.1K	$0.16	$2.00
183	Qwen3.7 FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	61.5	1M	$0.03	$0.13
184	Mistral Medium 3.5 (batch)Mistral AI	Mistral AI	61.5	262.1K	$0.75	$3.75
185	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Alibaba	Alibaba	61.5	1M	$0.30	$1.80
186	Mistral Large 4Mistral AI	Mistral AI	61.4	1.0M	$0.70	$2.10
187	Seed-2.0-CodeByteDance	ByteDance	61.4	262.1K	$0.50	$3.00
188	Step 3.7 FlashStepFun	StepFun	61.3	262.1K	$0.20	$1.15
189	Qwen3.6 FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	61.3	1M	$0.19	$1.13
190	GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI	OpenAI	61.1	400K	$1.25	$10.00
191	GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	61.1	400K	$2.50	$2.00
192	Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba	Alibaba	60.9	1M	$0.33	$1.95
193	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google	Google	60.9	65.5K	$0.50	$3.00
194	GPT-5.1 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	60.9	400K	$0.63	$5.00
195	Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.8	262.1K	$0.10	$0.90
196	Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	60.8	1M	$1.50	$7.50
197	Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	60.7	1.0M	Free	Free
198	Lyria 3 Clip PreviewGoogle	Google	60.7	1.0M	Free	Free
199	Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba	Alibaba	60.6	1M	$0.32	$1.28
200	Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.6	262.1K	$0.32	$3.20
201	Particle-1particle-ai	particle-ai	60.5	1.0M	$0.05	$0.50
202	GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	60.5	400K	$1.25	$10.00
203	Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	60.5	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
204	Hy4Tencent	Tencent	60.2	1.0M	$0.42	$1.25
205	Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI	Moonshot AI	60.2	262.1K	$0.60	$3.50
206	GLM 5V TurboZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	60.2	202.8K	$1.20	$4.00
207	Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle	Google	60.1	1.0M	$0.30	$2.50
208	Gemma 4 26B A4B Google	Google	60	262.1K	$0.09	$0.30
209	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google	Google	60	65.5K	$2.00	$12.00
210	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google	Google	60	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
211	Gemini Omni 1.2 FlashGoogle	Google	59.8	131.1K	$1.50	$9.00
212	Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGoogle	Google	59.8	131.1K	$1.50	$9.00
213	Inklingthinkingmachines	thinkingmachines	59.7	524.3K	$1.00	$4.05
214	Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	59.6	262.1K	$0.65	$3.41
215	Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	59.5	1M	$0.07	$0.26
216	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba	Alibaba	59.5	1M	$0.26	$1.56
217	GPT-5OpenAI	OpenAI	59.5	400K	$1.25	$10.00
218	Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance	ByteDance	59.4	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
219	Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba	Alibaba	59.3	262.1K	$0.17	$0.25
220	Qwen3.7 Plus (batch)Alibaba	Alibaba	59.2	262.1K	$0.23	$0.92
221	Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionai	inclusionai	59	131.1K	$0.06	$0.18
222	Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	58.9	200K	$1.00	$5.00
223	Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba	Alibaba	58.8	262.1K	$0.26	$2.60
224	Perceptron Mk1.5perceptron	perceptron	58.7	36.9K	$0.15	$1.50
225	Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba	Alibaba	58.7	262.1K	$0.60	$3.60
226	Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance	ByteDance	58.6	262.1K	$0.10	$0.40
227	Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba	Alibaba	58.6	262.1K	$0.26	$2.08
228	Ternary Bonsai 2 9Bprism-ml	prism-ml	58.5	262.1K	$0.08	$0.13
229	Command A+Cohere	Cohere	58.5	192K	$0.30	$1.50
230	Inkling Smallthinkingmachines	thinkingmachines	58.5	524.3K	$0.45	$1.20
231	Inkling Small (batch)thinkingmachines	thinkingmachines	58.5	524.3K	$0.36	$0.96
232	GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	58.5	400K	$0.25	$2.00
233	Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	58.4	262.1K	$0.14	$1.00
234	Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch)Anthropic	Anthropic	58.3	200K	$0.50	$2.50
235	GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	58.2	128K	$1.75	$14.00
236	GPT-5 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	58.2	400K	$0.63	$5.00
237	Ternary Bonsai 2 27Bprism-ml	prism-ml	58.1	262.1K	$0.07	$0.50
238	Gemma 4 31BGoogle	Google	58.1	262.1K	$0.20	$0.40
239	Mistral Small 4Mistral AI	Mistral AI	57.8	262.1K	$0.15	$0.60
240	GPT-5 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	57.5	400K	$0.25	$2.00
241	Pareto 26.9unbiased	unbiased	57.2	262.1K	$2.50	$7.50
242	GPT-5 Mini (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	57.2	400K	$0.13	$1.00
243	Muse Glimmer 30Bmeta	meta	57.1	131.1K	$0.30	$1.20
244	GPT-5 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	57.1	400K	$0.05	$0.40
245	Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)meta	meta	57	131.1K	$0.24	$0.96
246	GPT-5 Nano (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	57	400K	$0.02	$0.20
247	Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	56.4	262.1K	$0.53	$3.32
248	Seed 1.6ByteDance	ByteDance	56.3	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
249	Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance	ByteDance	55.9	262.1K	$0.07	$0.30
250	Nova 2 LiteAmazon	Amazon	55.8	1M	$0.30	$2.50
251	Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity	Perplexity	55.2	200K	$3.00	$15.00
252	o3OpenAI	OpenAI	55	200K	$2.00	$8.00
253	GLM 4.6VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	54.9	131.1K	$0.30	$0.90
254	Pareto 26.10unbiased	unbiased	54	1.0M	$0.80	$3.20
255	Pareto Latest~unbiased	~unbiased	54	1.0M	$0.80	$3.20
256	o3 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	54	200K	$1.00	$4.00
257	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	53.6	262.1K	$0.29	$1.00
258	o4 Mini (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	53.6	200K	$0.55	$2.20
259	Perceptron Mk1perceptron	perceptron	53.3	32.8K	$0.15	$1.50
260	Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	53.3	262.1K	$0.50	$1.50
261	GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	52.8	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
262	Extractscaledown	scaledown	52.6	1M	$0.04	Free
263	GPT-4.1OpenAI	OpenAI	52.3	1.0M	$2.00	$8.00
264	Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	51.3	262.1K	$0.20	$0.20
265	Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	51.3	262.1K	$0.15	$0.15
266	GPT-4.1 (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	51.3	1.0M	$1.00	$4.00
267	Reka Edgerekaai	rekaai	51.2	16.4K	$0.10	$0.10
268	Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google	Google	51.2	32.8K	$0.30	$2.50
269	Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyNVIDIA	NVIDIA	51.1	131.1K	$0.20	$0.20
270	GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	50.7	1.0M	$0.40	$1.60
271	GPT-4.1 Mini (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	50.5	1.0M	$0.20	$0.80
272	GPT-4.1 Nano (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	50.4	1.0M	$0.05	$0.20
273	Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	50.2	262.1K	$0.25	$0.75
274	Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	50.1	131.1K	$0.10	$0.10
275	Nova Premier 1.0Amazon	Amazon	50	1M	$2.50	$12.50
276	Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI	Mistral AI	49.2	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
277	GLM 4.5VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	49	65.5K	$0.60	$1.80
278	Summarizescaledown	scaledown	48.9	1M	$0.04	Free
279	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	48.6	262.1K	$0.21	$1.90
280	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	48.1	262.1K	$0.15	$0.60
281	Moondream 3 Previewmoondream	moondream	47.8	32K	$0.30	$2.50
282	Moondream 3.1moondream	moondream	47.8	32K	$0.30	$2.50
283	Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI	Mistral AI	46.5	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
284	Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	45.4	256K	$0.10	$0.30
285	Llama 4 ScoutMeta	Meta	44.7	1.3M	$0.10	$0.30
286	Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity	Perplexity	44.7	128K	$2.00	$8.00
287	GPT-4o (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	44.7	128K	$1.25	$5.00
288	GPT-4 Turbo (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	44.5	128K	$5.00	$15.00
289	Llama 4 MaverickMeta	Meta	44.4	524.3K	$0.35	$1.00
290	GPT-4o-mini (batch)OpenAI	OpenAI	43.5	128K	$0.07	$0.30
291	Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	43.1	128K	$0.35	$0.55
292	Gemma 3 27BGoogle	Google	43	131.1K	$0.08	$0.45
293	GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI	OpenAI	42.7	128K	$2.50	$10.00
294	GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI	OpenAI	42.6	128K	$5.00	$15.00
295	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI	OpenAI	42.3	128K	$2.50	$10.00
296	GPT-4oOpenAI	OpenAI	42.3	128K	$2.50	$10.00
297	Gemma 3 12BGoogle	Google	41.6	131.1K	$0.05	$0.15
298	Sonar ProPerplexity	Perplexity	41.5	200K	$3.00	$15.00
299	UI-TARS 7B ByteDance	ByteDance	40.2	128K	$0.10	$0.20
300	GPT-4o-miniOpenAI	OpenAI	40	128K	$0.15	$0.60
301	GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI	OpenAI	40	128K	$0.15	$0.60
302	Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	38.5	128K	$0.80	$1.00
303	SonarPerplexity	Perplexity	38.4	127.1K	$1.00	$1.00
304	Gemma 3 4BGoogle	Google	38.1	131.1K	$0.05	$0.10
305	Nova Pro 1.0Amazon	Amazon	36.2	300K	$0.80	$3.20
306	Llama Guard 4 12BMeta	Meta	36	163.8K	$0.18	$0.18
307	Nova Lite 1.0Amazon	Amazon	35.5	300K	$0.06	$0.24
308	Jev Routertypesafe	typesafe	0	1M	<$0.01	<$0.01

What Else Can Vision Models Do?

Vision-capable models often support additional capabilities. Here is how the 308 vision models break down by other features.

Function Calling

91%

281 of 308 vision models

JSON Mode

93%

286 of 308 vision models

Streaming

100%

308 of 308 vision models

Reasoning

84%

258 of 308 vision models

Web Search

58%

180 of 308 vision models

Image Output

10 of 308 vision models

Top Providers of Vision Models

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

OpenAI

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Google

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Anthropic

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Alibaba

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Mistral AI

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xAI

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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
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Pro (batch) OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Pro (batch) OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5 Pro OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Pro (batch) OpenAI
GPT Astra Latest ~openai
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra Pro OpenAI
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic
Claude Fable Latest ~anthropic
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
Muse Wonder meta
o3 Pro OpenAI

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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.