How is this ranking computed?

The set is a spec filter on the catalog. Scored models rank by the overall composite. Unscored models follow by the spec itself.

Best AI for image understanding

Models whose input modalities include image. Ranked by composite when scored, else by output price. Full leaderboard.

Rank	Model	Lab	Composite	Context	Out $/M
1	GPT 6 Astra	OpenAI	100th	1.1M	$50.00
2	Claude Fable 5	Anthropic	99th	1M	$50.00
3	Claude Fable 5.1	Anthropic	99th	1M	$50.00
4	GPT-5.5 Pro	OpenAI	98th	1.1M	$180.00
5	Claude Opus 5	Anthropic	96th	1M	$25.00
6	GPT-5.4 Pro	OpenAI	95th	1.1M	$180.00
7	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Google	95th	1M	$3.75
8	GPT-5.6 Sol	OpenAI	94th	1.1M	$10.00
9	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	DeepSeek	94th	1M	$1.2778
10	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Google	94th	1M	$3.75
11	GPT 5.5	OpenAI	93rd	1.1M	$30.00
12	Gemini-3-Pro	Google	91st	1M	$9.60
13	MiniMax-M2.5	MiniMax	91st	205K	$1.20
14	GPT 5.6 Terra	OpenAI	90th	1.1M	$12.00
15	Qwen3.8 Max Thinking	Alibaba	89th	991K	$6.00
16	Claude Opus 4.8	Anthropic	89th	1M	$25.00
17	GPT 5.3 Codex	OpenAI	89th	400K	$14.00
18	GPT 5.4	OpenAI	88th	1.1M	$15.00
19	Grok 4.6	xAI	87th	500K	$6.00
20	Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)	Google	86th	1M	$12.00
21	Grok 4.5	xAI	85th	500K	$6.00
22	Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)	Google	84th	1M	$3.00
23	Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google	84th	1M	$3.75
24	Gemini 3.5 Flash	Google	84th	1M	$9.00
25	Qwen3.7 Plus	Alibaba	84th	1M	$3.072
26	Claude 4.7 Opus	Anthropic	83rd	1M	$25.00
27	GLM-5.3	Zhipu	82nd	1M	$4.40
28	Claude Sonnet 5 Thinking	Anthropic	80th	1M	$10.00
29	GPT-5.6 Luna	OpenAI	80th	1.1M	$0.37
30	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	DeepSeek	80th	1M	$1.32
31	OpenAI/GPT-5.2	OpenAI	79th	400K	$14.00
32	GPT 5 Pro	OpenAI	78th	400K	$120.00
33	OpenAI/GPT-5	OpenAI	78th	400K	$10.00
34	GPT 5.1 Codex	OpenAI	77th	400K	$10.00
35	OpenAI o3	OpenAI	76th	200K	$8.00
36	GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13)	OpenAI	75th	400K	$10.00
37	Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking	Anthropic	74th	1M	$25.00
38	GPT 5.2 Codex	OpenAI	73rd	400K	$14.00
39	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B	Alibaba	73rd	262K	$2.052
40	Kimi K2.6	Kimi	72nd	262K	$4.00
41	Moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5	Alibaba	71st	256K	$1.90
42	Qwen3.5 397B-A17B	Alibaba	70th	262K	$2.65
43	GLM-5.2	Alibaba	66th	1M	$4.40
44	Qwen3.5 Plus Thinking	Alibaba	65th	984K	$2.40
45	Kimi K2.7 Code	Kimi	63rd	262K	$4.389
46	Qwen3.5 35B A3B	Alibaba	63rd	260K	$1.80
47	GLM-5.3-Flash	Zhipu	61st	1M	$0.025
48	Inkling Thinking	Databricks	61st	1M	$4.05
49	OpenAI o1	OpenAI	59th	200K	$60.00
50	Gemini 2.5 Pro	Google	57th	1M	$10.00
51	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite	Google	56th	1M	$1.50
52	Claude 4.5 Opus	Anthropic	55th	200K	$25.00
53	OpenAI o4-mini	OpenAI	55th	200K	$4.40
54	GPT 5 Mini	OpenAI	54th	400K	$2.00
55	Claude Sonnet 4.5	Anthropic	54th	200K	$15.00
56	Z-Ai/GLM 4.7	Zhipu	51st	200K	$0.80
57	GPT 5.4 Mini	OpenAI	50th	400K	$4.50
58	Qwen3.5 9B	Alibaba	48th	256K	$0.15
59	GPT OSS 120B	OpenAI	47th	131K	$0.798
60	GPT 5.4 Nano	OpenAI	46th	400K	$1.25
61	Qwen3.6 Flash	Alibaba	46th	992K	$1.16
62	Qwen3.5 122B A10B Thinking	Alibaba	45th	131K	$3.496
63	Claude 4.1 Opus	Anthropic	43rd	200K	$75.00
64	OpenAI o3-mini	OpenAI	42nd	200K	$4.40
65	GPT 4.1	OpenAI	41st	1M	$8.00
66	Gemini 2.5 Flash	Google	40th	1M	$2.50
67	GPT 5 Nano	OpenAI	40th	400K	$0.40
68	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Google	39th	1M	$2.50
69	GPT 4.1 Mini	OpenAI	31st	1M	$1.60
70	GPT 4.1 Nano	OpenAI	22nd	1M	$0.40
71	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)	OpenAI	21st	128K	$10.00
72	Mistral Large 2411	Mistral	15th	128K	$6.001
73	GPT-4o mini	OpenAI	15th	128K	$0.60
74	Grok Build 0.1	xAI	12th	256K	$2.00
75	GPT-3.5 Turbo	OpenAI	9th	16K	$1.50
76	Grok 4.3	xAI	0th	1M	$2.50
77	Cerebras-Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct	Meta	—	128K	free
78	Gemma 4 31B IT (free)	Google	—	262K	free
79	gpt-oss-20b	OpenAI	—	128K	$0.15
80	DeepSeek V4 Flash	DeepSeek	—	1M	$0.196
81	Mistral Small 3.2 (Mistral AI)	Mistral	—	128K	$0.30
82	Qwen3 30B A3B	Alibaba	—	40K	$0.30
83	Stepfun/Step-3.5 Flash	—	—	64K	$0.30
84	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Google	—	262K	$0.38
85	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite	Google	—	1M	$0.40
86	DeepSeek V3.2 Exp	DeepSeek	—	164K	$0.42
87	Qwen3.8 Flash	Alibaba	—	992K	$0.42
88	X-Ai/Grok 4.1 Fast Non Reasoning	xAI	—	2M	$0.50
89	Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	Alibaba	—	262K	$0.60
90	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	Alibaba	—	131K	$0.65
91	Gemma 3 27B	Google	—	40K	$0.684
92	Qwen3.8 27B	Alibaba	—	262K	$0.70
93	Step 3.7 Flash	—	—	262K	$1.14
94	MiniMax M3 Thinking	MiniMax	—	512K	$1.20
95	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	Alibaba	—	131K	$1.20
96	Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct FP8	Meta	—	131K	$1.484
97	GLM 4.5V Thinking	Zhipu	—	66K	$1.80
98	Qwen 3.6 Plus	Alibaba	—	992K	$1.95
99	GPT 5.1 Codex Mini	OpenAI	—	400K	$2.00
100	MiMo-V2.5	—	—	1M	$2.00
101	Qwen3.5 27B	Alibaba	—	260K	$2.16
102	Qwen3.6 27B Thinking	Alibaba	—	260K	$2.24
103	GLM 5V Turbo Thinking	Zhipu	—	203K	$4.00
104	Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking	Anthropic	—	200K	$5.00
105	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking	Alibaba	—	131K	$6.00
106	Gemini 3 Pro Image	Google	—	66K	$12.00
107	Claude 3.7 Sonnet	Anthropic	—	200K	$15.00
108	Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking	Anthropic	—	1M	$15.00
109	Claude Sonnet 4.6	Anthropic	—	1M	$15.00
110	Kimi K3	Alibaba	—	1M	$15.00
111	GPT 5.1 Codex Max	OpenAI	—	400K	$20.00
112	GPT-4 Turbo	OpenAI	—	128K	$30.00
113	Claude 4 Opus Thinking	Anthropic	—	200K	$75.00

Common questions

What is the best ai for image understanding right now?: Models whose input modalities include image. Ranked by composite when scored, else by output price.
How is this ranking computed?: The set is a spec filter on the catalog. Scored models rank by the overall composite. Unscored models follow by the spec itself.