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%	20.82	117	$2.00	$12.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.4New openai	57.0	-	1050K	92.0%	180.36	85	$2.50	$15.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.3-CodexNew openai	54.0	-	400K	91.5%	87.36	68	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex openai	49.0	-	400K	89.9%	4.01	89	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1 openai	47.7	87.0%	400K	87.3%	36.12	79	$1.25	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6New anthropic	46.5	-	1000K	84.0%	1.68	48	$5.00	$25.00
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview google	46.4	89.0%	1049K	89.8%	6.20	172	$0.50	$3.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BNew qwen	45.0	-	262K	89.3%	1.48	57	$0.60	$3.60
OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex openai	44.6	86.5%	400K	83.7%	9.96	186	$1.25	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6New anthropic	44.4	-	1000K	79.9%	1.19	53	$3.00	$15.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex openai	43.1	86.0%	400K	86.0%	7.37	124	$1.25	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 anthropic	43.1	88.9%	200K	81.0%	1.33	57	$5.00	$25.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27BNew qwen	42.1	-	262K	85.8%	1.31	89	$0.30	$2.40
Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10BNew qwen	41.6	-	262K	85.7%	1.06	149	$0.40	$3.20
xAI: Grok 4 x-ai	41.5	86.6%	256K	87.7%	11.52	47	$3.00	$15.00
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview google	41.3	89.5%	1049K	88.7%	3.73	115	$2.00	$12.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini openai	41.2	83.7%	400K	82.8%	96.84	79	$0.25	$2.00
OpenAI: o3 Pro openai	40.7	-	200K	84.5%	127.34	16	$20.00	$80.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini openai	38.6	82.0%	400K	81.3%	4.09	162	$0.25	$2.00
OpenAI: o3 openai	38.4	85.3%	200K	82.7%	10.91	61	$2.00	$8.00
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5New moonshotai	37.3	-	262K	78.9%	1.15	39	$0.60	$3.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BNew qwen	37.1	-	262K	84.5%	1.05	133	$0.25	$2.00
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking) anthropic	34.7	83.7%	200K	77.2%	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet 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%	20.47	126	$1.25	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 openai	33.6	81.4%	400K	71.2%	0.60	65	$1.75	$14.00
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewNew google	33.5	-	1049K	82.2%	5.88	274	$0.25	$1.50
OpenAI: o4 Mini High openai	33.1	83.2%	200K	78.4%	24.82	127	$1.10	$4.40
OpenAI: o4 Mini openai	33.1	83.2%	200K	78.4%	24.82	127	$1.10	$4.40
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BNew qwen	32.4	-	256K	80.6%	0.32	83	$0.10	$0.15
OpenAI: o1 openai	30.8	84.1%	200K	74.7%	21.57	108	$15.00	$60.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash google	27.0	83.2%	1049K	79.0%	12.26	229	$0.30	$2.50
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano openai	26.8	78.0%	400K	67.6%	91.98	137	$0.05	$0.40
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 openai	26.3	80.6%	1048K	66.6%	0.53	84	$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
OpenAI: GPT-5 openai	23.9	80.6%	400K	67.3%	0.95	62	$1.25	$10.00
xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast x-ai	23.6	74.3%	2000K	63.7%	0.37	131	$0.20	$0.50
xAI: Grok 4 Fast x-ai	23.1	73.0%	2000K	60.6%	0.38	185	$0.20	$0.50
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini openai	22.9	78.1%	1048K	66.4%	0.47	72	$0.40	$1.60
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 mistralai	21.3	68.3%	131K	58.8%	0.42	81	$0.40	$2.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct qwen	20.8	82.3%	262K	71.2%	1.10	61	$0.70	$2.80
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 google	19.4	79.6%	1049K	65.1%	0.32	319	$0.10	$0.40
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 mistralai	18.8	76.0%	131K	57.8%	0.43	49	$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%	0.65	76	$2.50	$10.00
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick meta-llama	18.4	80.9%	1049K	67.1%	0.47	130	$0.27	$0.85
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite google	17.6	75.9%	1049K	62.5%	13.27	215	$0.10	$0.40
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct qwen	17.2	79.1%	131K	67.1%	1.06	78	$0.70	$2.80
Z.ai: GLM 4.6V z-ai	17.1	75.2%	131K	56.6%	4.01	21	$0.30	$0.90
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct qwen	16.1	76.4%	131K	69.5%	0.96	130	$0.20	$0.80
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Sonnet anthropic	15.9	77.2%	200K	59.9%	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Perplexity: Sonar perplexity	15.5	68.9%	127K	47.1%	1.31	110	$1.00	$1.00
Perplexity: Sonar Pro perplexity	15.2	75.5%	200K	57.8%	1.27	120	$3.00	$15.00
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%	0.48	82	$5.00	$15.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct qwen	14.3	68.6%	131K	42.7%	0.98	137	$0.18	$0.70
OpenAI: GPT-4o openai	14.1	77.3%	128K	51.1%	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Pixtral Large 2411 mistralai	14.0	70.1%	131K	50.5%	0.43	57	$2.00	$6.00
OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo openai	13.7	69.4%	128K	-	1.05	29	$10.00	$30.00
Meta: Llama 4 Scout meta-llama	13.5	75.2%	328K	58.7%	0.48	132	$0.17	$0.66
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano openai	13.0	65.7%	1048K	51.2%	0.47	95	$0.10	$0.40
Z.ai: GLM 4.5V z-ai	12.7	75.1%	66K	57.3%	28.90	27	$0.60	$1.80
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini openai	12.6	64.8%	128K	42.6%	0.52	57	$0.15	$0.60
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku anthropic	12.3	-	200K	37.4%	0.39	133	$0.25	$1.25
NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL nvidia	10.1	64.9%	131K	43.9%	0.54	136	$0.20	$0.60
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B allenai	7.3	-	37K	42.5%	0.40	139	$0.00	$0.00
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B baidu	-	-	123K	-	-	-	$0.42	$1.25
xAI: Grok 4.20 Beta x-ai	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$2.00	$6.00
Healer Alpha openrouter	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite bytedance-seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.25	$2.00
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash bytedance-seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.07	$0.30
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 bytedance-seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.25	$2.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.75	$14.00
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ProNew openai	-	-	1050K	-	-	-	$30.00	$180.00
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 mistralai	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.10
OpenAI: GPT-5.3 Chat openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.75	$14.00
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.13	$1.56
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini bytedance-seed	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) google	-	-	66K	-	-	-	$0.50	$3.00
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
Arcee AI: Spotlight arcee-ai	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.18	$0.18
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 qwen	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.26	$1.56
Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B meta-llama	-	-	164K	-	-	-	$0.18	$0.18
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro openai	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$21.00	$168.00
Free Models Router openrouter	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$0.00	$0.00
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 mistralai	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.50	$1.50
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.26	$2.60
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max openai	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Amazon: Nova 2 Lite amazon	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.30	$2.50
Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 mistralai	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.20
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 mistralai	-	-	262K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.15
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$2.00	$12.00
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct qwen	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.60
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) google	-	-	66K	-	-	-	$2.00	$12.00
Google: Gemma 3 4B google	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.04	$0.08
Google: Gemma 3 12B google	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.04	$0.13
OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$1.25	$10.00
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B baidu	-	-	30K	-	-	-	$0.14	$0.56
Google: Gemma 3 27B google	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.03	$0.11
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0 amazon	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$2.50	$12.50
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search perplexity	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash google	-	-	1049K	-	-	-	$0.10	$0.40
Qwen: Qwen VL Plus qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.14	$0.41
Qwen: Qwen VL Max qwen	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.80	$3.20
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$15.00	$75.00
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct qwen	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.80	$0.80
MiniMax: MiniMax-01 minimax	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$0.20	$1.10
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini openai	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$2.50	$2.00
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
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
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 amazon	-	-	300K	-	-	-	$0.06	$0.24
Amazon: Nova Pro 1.0 amazon	-	-	300K	-	-	-	$0.80	$3.20
Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) google	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.30	$2.50
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-11-20) openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$2.50	$10.00
OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro openai	-	-	400K	-	-	-	$15.00	$120.00
Meta: Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct meta-llama	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.05	$0.05
Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct qwen	-	-	33K	-	-	-	$0.20	$0.20
OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.15	$0.60
OpenAI: GPT-4o (extended) openai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$6.00	$18.00
xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta x-ai	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$2.00	$6.00
Auto Router openrouter	-	-	2000K	-	-	-	$-1000000.00	$-1000000.00
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B mistralai	-	-	131K	-	-	-	$0.06	$0.18
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$15.00	$75.00
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 anthropic	-	-	200K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic	-	-	1000K	-	-	-	$3.00	$15.00
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B mistralai	-	-	128K	-	-	-	$0.35	$0.56