Best Vision AI Models 2026

A definitive ranking of the top vision LLMs and AI models optimized for your specific use cases.

Model	Intelligence	MMLU Pro	Context	GPQA	TTFT (s)	Speed (T/s)	Input Price (1M)	Output Price (1M)
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewNew Google	57.2	-	1049K	94.1%	20.93	125	$2.00	$12.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.3-CodexNew OpenAI	54.0	-	400K	91.5%	77.09	76	$1.75	$14.00
Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusNew Alibaba	50.0	-	1000K	88.2%	1.30	51	$0.50	$3.00
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic	49.7	89.5%	200K	86.6%	11.50	64	$5.00	$25.00
xAI: Grok 4.20 xAI	49.3	-	2000K	91.1%	10.96	192	$2.00	$6.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex OpenAI	49.0	-	400K	89.9%	17.40	93	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1 OpenAI	47.7	87.0%	400K	87.3%	30.53	95	$1.25	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 OpenAI	46.6	85.9%	400K	86.4%	-	-	$1.75	$14.00
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6New Anthropic	46.5	-	1000K	84.0%	1.61	45	$5.00	$25.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BNew Alibaba	45.0	-	262K	89.3%	1.45	57	$0.60	$3.60
OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex OpenAI	44.6	86.5%	400K	83.7%	7.90	190	$1.25	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 OpenAI	44.6	87.1%	400K	85.4%	95.58	87	$1.25	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 NanoNew OpenAI	44.4	-	400K	81.7%	2.52	200	$0.20	$1.25
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6New Anthropic	44.4	-	1000K	79.9%	1.00	49	$3.00	$15.00
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-OmniNew Xiaomi	43.4	-	262K	82.8%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex OpenAI	43.1	86.0%	400K	86.0%	5.66	155	$1.25	$10.00
Z.ai: GLM 5V TurboNew Z AI	42.9	-	203K	80.9%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10BNew Alibaba	41.6	-	262K	85.7%	1.01	128	$0.40	$3.20
xAI: Grok 4 xAI	41.5	86.6%	256K	87.7%	10.01	46	$3.00	$15.00
OpenAI: o3 Pro OpenAI	40.7	-	200K	84.5%	91.83	19	$20.00	$80.00
xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast xAI	38.6	85.4%	2000K	85.3%	8.47	139	$0.20	$0.50
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini OpenAI	38.6	82.0%	400K	81.3%	3.99	185	$0.25	$2.00
OpenAI: o3 OpenAI	38.4	85.3%	200K	82.7%	7.86	97	$2.00	$8.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniNew OpenAI	37.7	-	400K	82.3%	11.24	166	$0.75	$4.50
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5New Kimi	37.3	-	262K	78.9%	1.64	32	$0.60	$3.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27BNew Alibaba	37.2	-	262K	84.2%	1.40	91	$0.30	$2.40
OpenAI: GPT-5.4New OpenAI	35.4	-	1050K	74.8%	0.58	61	$2.50	$15.00
xAI: Grok 4 Fast xAI	35.1	85.0%	2000K	84.7%	3.11	167	$0.20	$0.50
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google	35.0	88.2%	1049K	81.2%	0.87	174	$0.50	$3.00
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking) Anthropic	34.7	83.7%	200K	77.2%	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Google	34.6	86.2%	1049K	84.4%	22.30	124	$1.25	$10.00
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewNew Google	33.5	-	1049K	82.2%	7.76	204	$0.25	$1.50
OpenAI: o4 Mini OpenAI	33.1	83.2%	200K	78.4%	24.35	120	$1.10	$4.40
OpenAI: o4 Mini High OpenAI	33.1	83.2%	200K	78.4%	24.35	120	$1.10	$4.40
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BNew Alibaba	32.4	-	256K	80.6%	0.26	142	$0.07	$0.17
Google: Gemma 4 31BNew Google	32.3	-	262K	76.3%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B New Google	31.2	-	262K	79.2%	-	-	$0.13	$0.40
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic	30.8	80.3%	200K	65.6%	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
OpenAI: o1 OpenAI	30.8	84.1%	200K	74.7%	20.18	100	$15.00	$60.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BNew Alibaba	30.7	-	262K	81.9%	1.02	134	$0.25	$2.00
Mistral: Mistral Small 4New Mistral	27.2	-	262K	76.9%	0.84	170	$0.15	$0.60
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Google	27.0	83.2%	1049K	79.0%	11.50	230	$0.30	$2.50
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano OpenAI	26.8	78.0%	400K	67.6%	108.15	111	$0.05	$0.40
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 OpenAI	26.3	80.6%	1048K	66.6%	0.56	99	$2.00	$8.00
OpenAI: o1-pro OpenAI	25.8	-	200K	-	-	-	$150.00	$600.00
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro Perplexity	24.6	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Z.ai: GLM 4.6V Z AI	23.4	79.9%	131K	71.9%	1.21	28	$0.30	$0.90
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI	22.9	78.1%	1048K	66.4%	0.51	77	$0.40	$1.60
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 Mistral	21.3	68.3%	131K	58.8%	0.43	99	$0.40	$2.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Alibaba	20.8	82.3%	262K	71.2%	1.04	59	$0.70	$2.80
OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini OpenAI	20.7	77.5%	400K	68.7%	0.93	76	$0.25	$2.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 Google	19.4	79.6%	1049K	65.1%	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 Mistral	18.8	76.0%	131K	57.8%	0.44	53	$0.40	$2.00
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic	18.7	63.4%	200K	40.8%	-	-	$0.80	$4.00
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI	18.6	-	128K	52.1%	0.57	96	$2.50	$10.00
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick Meta	18.4	80.9%	1049K	67.1%	0.46	104	$0.31	$0.91
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Google	17.6	75.9%	1049K	62.5%	14.08	330	$0.10	$0.40
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Alibaba	17.2	79.1%	131K	67.1%	1.04	84	$0.70	$2.80
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Alibaba	16.1	76.4%	131K	69.5%	0.93	127	$0.20	$0.80
Perplexity: Sonar Perplexity	15.5	68.9%	127K	47.1%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Perplexity	15.2	75.5%	200K	57.8%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Google	14.5	-	1049K	54.2%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI	14.5	74.0%	128K	52.6%	0.56	95	$5.00	$15.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Alibaba	14.3	68.6%	131K	42.7%	0.95	142	$0.18	$0.70
OpenAI: GPT-4o OpenAI	14.1	77.3%	128K	51.1%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Pixtral Large 2411 Mistral	14.0	70.1%	131K	50.5%	0.45	54	$2.00	$6.00
OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI	13.7	69.4%	128K	-	1.26	27	$10.00	$30.00
Meta: Llama 4 Scout Meta	13.5	75.2%	328K	58.7%	0.47	140	$0.17	$0.66
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI	13.0	65.7%	1048K	51.2%	0.42	152	$0.10	$0.40
Z.ai: GLM 4.5V Z AI	12.7	75.1%	66K	57.3%	30.89	58	$0.60	$1.80
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini OpenAI	12.6	64.8%	128K	42.6%	0.56	52	$0.15	$0.60
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic	12.3	-	200K	37.4%	0.48	133	$0.25	$1.25
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL NVIDIA	10.1	64.9%	131K	43.9%	0.54	138	$0.20	$0.60
OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Baidu	-	-	30K	-	-	-	$0.14	$0.56
Auto Router openrouter	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$-1000000.00	$-1000000.00
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) Google	-	-	66K	-	-	-	$2.00	$12.00
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$2.50	$12.50
OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$6.00	$18.00
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search Perplexity	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$2.00	$12.00
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 Mistral	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.15
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$15.00	$75.00
Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 Mistral	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.20
Meta: Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.05	$0.05
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.13	$1.56
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$1.00	$5.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.12	$1.36
ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B ByteDance	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.20
Amazon: Nova 2 Lite Amazon	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.30	$2.50
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$10.00	$10.00
OpenAI: o3 Deep Research OpenAI	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$10.00	$40.00
OpenAI: o4 Mini Deep Research OpenAI	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$2.00	$8.00
Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Google	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.30	$2.50
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.26	$2.60
OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$15.00	$120.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$2.50	$2.00
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 Mistral	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.50	$1.50
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct Qwen	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.60
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B Baidu	-	-	123K	-	-	-	$0.42	$1.25
Free Models Router openrouter	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Google: Gemma 3 12B Google	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.04	$0.13
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.60
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Google: Gemma 3 27B Google	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.08	$0.16
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 Mistral	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.10
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$21.00	$168.00
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 ByteDance Seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.25	$2.00
Arcee AI: Spotlight Arcee AI	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.18	$0.18
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash ByteDance Seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.07	$0.30
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 Qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.26	$1.56
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
Qwen: Qwen VL Plus Qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.14	$0.41
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.07	$0.20
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.07	$0.26
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 Anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$15.00	$75.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct Qwen	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.80	$0.80
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
MiniMax: MiniMax-01 MiniMax	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.20	$1.10
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B Meta	-	-	164K	-	-	-	$0.18	$0.18
Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) Google	-	-	66K	-	-	-	$0.50	$3.00
Amazon: Nova Pro 1.0 Amazon	-	-	300K	-	-	-	$0.80	$3.20
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon	-	-	300K	-	-	-	$0.06	$0.24
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini ByteDance Seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-11-20) OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$2.50	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ProNew OpenAI	-	-	1050K	-	-	-	$30.00	$180.00
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite ByteDance Seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.25	$2.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.75	$14.00
Qwen: Qwen VL Max Qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.52	$2.08
Google: Gemma 3 4B Google	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.04	$0.08
Reka Edge rekaai	-	-	16K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.10
Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B Mistral	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.03	$0.11
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview Google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent xAI	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$2.00	$6.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.3 Chat OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat OpenAI	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) Anthropic	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$30.00	$150.00