AI Models with Vision

160 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

160

Of All Models

45%

Providers

Avg Score

Vision Model Rankings

All 160 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	88.6	400K	$21.00	$168.00
6	GPT-5 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	87.1	400K	$15.00	$120.00
7	o3 ProOpenAI	OpenAI	78.1	200K	$20.00	$80.00
8	Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic	Anthropic	77.5	200K	$15.00	$75.00
9	o1-proOpenAI	OpenAI	77.3	200K	$150.00	$600.00
10	OpenAI GPT Latest~openai	~openai	72	1.1M	$5.00	$30.00
11	GPT-5.5OpenAI	OpenAI	72	1.1M	$5.00	$30.00
12	Claude Opus 4Anthropic	Anthropic	71.9	200K	$15.00	$75.00
13	o3 Deep ResearchOpenAI	OpenAI	71.4	200K	$10.00	$40.00
14	Claude Opus Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
15	Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic	Anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
16	Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	70.7	1M	$5.00	$25.00
17	Google Gemini Pro Latest~google	~google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
18	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle	Google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
19	Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	70.4	1.0M	$2.00	$12.00
20	Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle	Google	69.6	1.0M	$1.50	$9.00
21	Google Gemini Flash Latest~google	~google	69.6	1.0M	$1.50	$9.00
22	GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI	OpenAI	68.7	272K	$8.00	$15.00
23	Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	68.6	200K	$5.00	$25.00
24	GPT-5.4OpenAI	OpenAI	68.3	1.1M	$2.50	$15.00
25	o1OpenAI	OpenAI	68.3	200K	$15.00	$60.00
26	Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	68.2	1M	$3.00	$15.00
27	Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic	Anthropic	68.2	1M	$3.00	$15.00
28	Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle	Google	68.1	1.0M	$0.50	$3.00
29	Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	67.7	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
30	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle	Google	67.7	1.0M	$0.25	$1.50
31	GPT Chat LatestOpenAI	OpenAI	67.5	400K	$5.00	$30.00
32	GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	67.1	400K	$1.75	$14.00
33	GPT-5.2OpenAI	OpenAI	67.1	400K	$1.75	$14.00
34	GPT-5 ImageOpenAI	OpenAI	66.5	400K	$10.00	$10.00
35	Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Google	Google	66.2	262.1K	Free	Free
36	Gemma 4 31B (free)Google	Google	66.2	262.1K	Free	Free
37	Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	66	1M	$3.00	$15.00
38	GPT-5.1OpenAI	OpenAI	65.7	400K	$1.25	$10.00
39	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025Google	Google	65.7	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
40	GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	65.4	400K	$1.75	$14.00
41	Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle	Google	65.4	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
42	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	64.7	256K	Free	Free
43	OpenAI GPT Mini Latest~openai	~openai	64.7	400K	$0.75	$4.50
44	GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	64.7	400K	$0.75	$4.50
45	GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	64.6	400K	$2.50	$2.00
46	GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxOpenAI	OpenAI	64.4	400K	$1.25	$10.00
47	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06Google	Google	64.2	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
48	GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	64	400K	$1.25	$10.00
49	GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	63.9	400K	$0.20	$1.25
50	Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	63.9	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
51	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest~anthropic	~anthropic	63.7	200K	$1.00	$5.00
52	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google	Google	63.7	65.5K	$2.00	$12.00
53	Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle	Google	63.5	1.0M	$0.30	$2.50
54	o4 Mini Deep ResearchOpenAI	OpenAI	63.4	200K	$2.00	$8.00
55	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05Google	Google	63.4	1.0M	$1.25	$10.00
56	GPT-5OpenAI	OpenAI	63	400K	$1.25	$10.00
57	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google	Google	62.8	131.1K	$0.50	$3.00
58	MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi	Xiaomi	62.7	1.0M	$0.14	$0.28
59	GPT-5 CodexOpenAI	OpenAI	62.6	400K	$1.25	$10.00
60	Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic	Anthropic	62.5	200K	$1.00	$5.00
61	Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free)NVIDIA	NVIDIA	62	128K	Free	Free
62	GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	61.8	400K	$0.25	$2.00
63	MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi	Xiaomi	61.3	262.1K	$0.40	$2.00
64	Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba	Alibaba	61	262.1K	$0.29	$3.20
65	GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	61	128K	$1.75	$14.00
66	GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	61	128K	$1.75	$14.00
67	GPT-5 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	61	400K	$0.25	$2.00
68	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Alibaba	Alibaba	60.9	1M	$0.30	$1.80
69	Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba	Alibaba	60.9	1M	$0.33	$1.95
70	Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogle	Google	60.8	1.0M	Free	Free
71	Lyria 3 Clip PreviewGoogle	Google	60.8	1.0M	Free	Free
72	Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Alibaba	Alibaba	60.8	1M	$0.26	$1.56
73	Qwen3.6 FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	60.7	1M	$0.19	$1.13
74	Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.7	262.1K	$0.26	$2.08
75	Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba	Alibaba	60.5	1M	$0.07	$0.26
76	Qwen3.6 35B A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	60.4	262.1K	$0.14	$1.00
77	GLM 5V TurboZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	60.4	202.8K	$1.20	$4.00
78	Seed-2.0-LiteByteDance	ByteDance	60.2	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
79	GPT-5.1 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	60	128K	$1.25	$10.00
80	Seed-2.0-MiniByteDance	ByteDance	59.8	262.1K	$0.10	$0.40
81	Qwen3.5 397B A17BAlibaba	Alibaba	59.7	262.1K	$0.39	$2.34
82	Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba	Alibaba	59.6	262.1K	$0.20	$1.56
83	MoonshotAI Kimi Latest~moonshotai	~moonshotai	59.4	262.1K	$0.73	$3.49
84	Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	59.4	262.1K	$0.73	$3.49
85	Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba	Alibaba	59.4	262.1K	$0.04	$0.15
86	Grok 4.20xAI	xAI	59.2	2M	$1.25	$2.50
87	Seed 1.6ByteDance	ByteDance	59.2	262.1K	$0.25	$2.00
88	Nova 2 LiteAmazon	Amazon	59.1	1M	$0.30	$2.50
89	Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	59	262.1K	$0.40	$1.90
90	Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic	Anthropic	58.9	1M	$3.00	$15.00
91	Seed 1.6 FlashByteDance	ByteDance	58.7	262.1K	$0.07	$0.30
92	Sonar Pro SearchPerplexity	Perplexity	58.7	200K	$3.00	$15.00
93	o3OpenAI	OpenAI	58.6	200K	$2.00	$8.00
94	Gemma 4 31BGoogle	Google	58.3	262.1K	$0.12	$0.37
95	GLM 4.6VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	58	131.1K	$0.30	$0.90
96	o4 Mini HighOpenAI	OpenAI	57.7	200K	$1.10	$4.40
97	o4 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	57.7	200K	$1.10	$4.40
98	Grok 4.3xAI	xAI	56.9	1M	$1.25	$2.50
99	Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentxAI	xAI	56.5	2M	$2.00	$6.00
100	Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	56.1	256K	$0.12	$1.36
101	Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google	Google	55.9	32.8K	$0.30	$2.50
102	Grok Build 0.1xAI	xAI	55.5	256K	$1.00	$2.00
103	Kimi K2.6 (free)Moonshot AI	Moonshot AI	55.4	262.1K	Free	Free
104	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	55.3	131.1K	$0.13	$1.56
105	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba	Alibaba	55.2	131.1K	$0.26	$2.60
106	Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI	Mistral AI	55	262.1K	$1.50	$7.50
107	Gemini 2.0 Flash LiteGoogle	Google	54.8	1.0M	$0.07	$0.30
108	Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle	Google	54.2	1M	$0.10	$0.40
109	GPT-5 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	54.1	400K	$0.05	$0.40
110	GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI	OpenAI	54.1	1.0M	$0.40	$1.60
111	GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI	OpenAI	53.8	1.0M	$0.10	$0.40
112	Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba	Alibaba	53.4	262.1K	$0.14	$1.00
113	Nova Premier 1.0Amazon	Amazon	53.4	1M	$2.50	$12.50
114	GPT-5 ChatOpenAI	OpenAI	53.3	128K	$1.25	$10.00
115	Gemma 4 26B A4B Google	Google	53.2	262.1K	$0.06	$0.33
116	GLM 4.5VZhipu AI	Zhipu AI	52.6	65.5K	$0.60	$1.80
117	Perceptron Mk1perceptron	perceptron	52.5	32.8K	$0.15	$1.50
118	Qwen3 VL 32B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	52.5	262.1K	$0.10	$0.42
119	Qwen3 VL 8B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	52.3	256K	$0.08	$0.50
120	Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	52.1	262.1K	$0.13	$0.52
121	Reka Edgerekaai	rekaai	52	16.4K	$0.10	$0.10
122	Mistral Small 4Mistral AI	Mistral AI	51.6	262.1K	$0.15	$0.60
123	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	51.3	262.1K	$0.20	$0.88
124	GPT-4.1OpenAI	OpenAI	50.2	1.0M	$2.00	$8.00
125	Mistral Large 3 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	49.9	262.1K	$0.50	$1.50
126	Llama 4 ScoutMeta	Meta	49.9	10M	$0.08	$0.30
127	ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3BBaidu	Baidu	48.9	131.1K	$0.14	$0.56
128	Ministral 3 14B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	47.9	262.1K	$0.20	$0.20
129	Ministral 3 8B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	47.9	262.1K	$0.15	$0.15
130	Mistral Small 3.2 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	47.9	128K	$0.07	$0.20
131	Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral AI	Mistral AI	47.3	131.1K	$0.10	$0.10
132	Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI	Mistral AI	46.5	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
133	GPT-4o (2024-11-20)OpenAI	OpenAI	46.2	128K	$2.50	$10.00
134	Gemma 3 12BGoogle	Google	45.2	131.1K	$0.04	$0.13
135	Gemma 3 27BGoogle	Google	45.2	131.1K	$0.08	$0.16
136	Sonar ProPerplexity	Perplexity	45	200K	$3.00	$15.00
137	ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu	Baidu	44.9	131.1K	$0.42	$1.25
138	Llama 4 MaverickMeta	Meta	44.3	1.0M	$0.15	$0.60
139	Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI	Mistral AI	43.8	131.1K	$0.40	$2.00
140	GPT-4 TurboOpenAI	OpenAI	43.8	128K	$10.00	$30.00
141	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI	OpenAI	43.3	128K	$2.50	$10.00
142	Llama Guard 4 12BMeta	Meta	43.1	163.8K	$0.18	$0.18
143	Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic	Anthropic	42.5	200K	$0.80	$4.00
144	Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity	Perplexity	41.9	128K	$2.00	$8.00
145	GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI	OpenAI	41.7	128K	$5.00	$15.00
146	Gemma 3 4BGoogle	Google	41.6	131.1K	$0.04	$0.08
147	MiniMax-01MiniMax	MiniMax	41.6	1.0M	$0.20	$1.10
148	GPT-4oOpenAI	OpenAI	41.4	128K	$2.50	$10.00
149	Spotlightarcee-ai	arcee-ai	40.5	131.1K	$0.18	$0.18
150	GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI	OpenAI	40.4	128K	$0.15	$0.60
151	GPT-4o-miniOpenAI	OpenAI	40.4	128K	$0.15	$0.60
152	Pixtral Large 2411Mistral AI	Mistral AI	40.2	131.1K	$2.00	$6.00
153	UI-TARS 7B ByteDance	ByteDance	40.1	128K	$0.10	$0.20
154	Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI	Mistral AI	39.7	128K	$0.35	$0.55
155	Nova Pro 1.0Amazon	Amazon	39.6	300K	$0.80	$3.20
156	Nova Lite 1.0Amazon	Amazon	38.9	300K	$0.06	$0.24
157	Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMeta	Meta	37	131.1K	$0.24	$0.24
158	Qwen2.5 VL 72B InstructAlibaba	Alibaba	35.7	131.1K	$0.25	$0.75
159	SonarPerplexity	Perplexity	35.6	127.1K	$1.00	$1.00
160	Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic	Anthropic	33.4	200K	$0.25	$1.25

What Else Can Vision Models Do?

Vision-capable models often support additional capabilities. Here is how the 160 vision models break down by other features.

Function Calling

84%

134 of 160 vision models

JSON Mode

88%

140 of 160 vision models

Streaming

100%

160 of 160 vision models

Reasoning

68%

108 of 160 vision models

Web Search

51%

82 of 160 vision models

Image Output

6 of 160 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 Opus 4.1 Anthropic
o1-pro OpenAI
OpenAI GPT Latest ~openai
GPT-5.5 OpenAI
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic
o3 Deep Research OpenAI
Claude Opus Latest ~anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7 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.