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	99th	1.1M	$50.00
2	GPT-6.1 Sol	OpenAI	99th	1.1M	$10.00
3	Claude Fable 5	Anthropic	98th	1M	$50.00
4	Gemini 4 Argon (Vertex AI)	Google	98th	1M	$20.00
5	GPT-5.5 Pro	OpenAI	97th	1.1M	$180.00
6	Claude Opus 5.5	Anthropic	95th	1M	$20.00
7	GPT-5.4 Pro	OpenAI	93rd	1.1M	$180.00
8	Claude Opus 5	Anthropic	93rd	1M	$25.00
9	Claude Fable 5.1	Anthropic	92nd	1M	$50.00
10	GPT-6 Sol	OpenAI	92nd	1.1M	$10.00
11	GPT-5.6 Sol	OpenAI	91st	1.1M	$20.00
12	GPT-5.3 Codex	OpenAI	90th	400K	$14.00
13	GPT-5.5	OpenAI	89th	1.1M	$30.00
14	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Anthropic	89th	1M	$10.00
15	Gemini 3.7 Flash (Vertex AI)	Google	89th	1M	$7.50
16	Qwen3.8 Max 0902	Alibaba	88th	1M	$6.00
17	Gemini 3.8 Flash (Vertex AI)	Google	88th	1M	$7.50
18	Muse Spark Open (Nebius)	Meta	86th	1M	$4.25
19	Claude Opus 4.8	Anthropic	86th	1M	$25.00
20	GPT-5.6 Terra	OpenAI	85th	1.1M	$12.00
21	GPT-5.4	OpenAI	85th	1.1M	$15.00
22	Muse Spark 1.3 (Meta)	Meta	84th	1M	$4.25
23	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Nebius)	Alibaba	84th	1M	$1.20
24	Qwen3.7 Plus	Alibaba	83rd	984K	$1.60
25	GPT-5 Pro	OpenAI	83rd	400K	$120.00
26	Muse Spark 1.2 (Meta)	Meta	82nd	1M	$4.25
27	Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Vertex AI)	Google	81st	1M	$3.00
28	GPT-5.1 Codex (Azure)	OpenAI	81st	272K	$10.00
29	GLM-5.3	Alibaba	80th	1M	$4.40
30	Muse Spark 1.1 (Meta)	Meta	80th	1M	$4.25
31	Gemini 3.5 Flash (Vertex AI)	Google	80th	1M	$9.00
32	Claude Opus 4.7	Anthropic	79th	1M	$25.00
33	Qwen3.5 35B-A3B	Alibaba	79th	258K	$0.459
34	Grok 4.6	xAI	79th	500K	$6.00
35	DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	DeepSeek	78th	1M	$0.60
36	GPT-5.2 Codex (Azure)	OpenAI	77th	272K	$14.00
37	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Vertex AI)	Google	77th	1M	$12.00
38	Claude Sonnet 5	Anthropic	76th	1M	$10.00
39	Claude Haiku 5.5	Anthropic	75th	1M	$0.50
40	Kimi K2.5 (TensorX)	Kimi	75th	262K	$2.80
41	Qwen3.5 397B-A17B	Alibaba	74th	258K	$1.032
42	GPT-5	OpenAI	73rd	400K	$10.00
43	Grok 4.7	xAI	71st	500K	$6.00
44	GPT-5.1	OpenAI	71st	400K	$10.00
45	o3	OpenAI	70th	200K	$8.00
46	DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Nebius)	Alibaba	70th	1M	$0.28
47	GPT-5.2	OpenAI	69th	400K	$14.00
48	Gemini 3.6 Flash (Vertex AI)	Google	68th	1M	$3.75
49	Grok 4.5	xAI	67th	500K	$6.00
50	GPT-5.6 Luna	OpenAI	67th	1.1M	$1.20
51	Claude Opus 4.6	Anthropic	65th	1M	$25.00
52	Qwen3.5 9B	Alibaba	62nd	262K	$0.13
53	Qwen3.6 Plus	Alibaba	62nd	984K	$3.00
54	Kimi K2.6	Kimi	61st	262K	$4.00
55	GPT-6 Luna	OpenAI	60th	1.1M	$0.50
56	GLM-5.2	Alibaba	59th	1M	$4.40
57	Qwen3.6 27B	Alibaba	59th	229K	$2.4754
58	GLM-5.3-Flash	Zhipu	56th	1M	$0.50
59	Kimi K2.7 Code	Kimi	54th	262K	$4.00
60	Qwen3.5 Plus	Alibaba	53rd	984K	$2.21
61	Inkling (Deep Infra)	Databricks	53rd	524K	$4.05
62	Gemini 2.5 Pro	Google	51st	1M	$10.00
63	o4-mini	OpenAI	50th	200K	$4.00
64	GPT-5 Mini	OpenAI	49th	400K	$2.00
65	Claude Sonnet 4.5 (latest)	Anthropic	48th	200K	$15.00
66	MiniMax-M3	MiniMax	47th	524K	$1.20
67	GPT-5.4 mini	OpenAI	47th	400K	$4.50
68	Claude Opus 4.5 (latest)	Anthropic	46th	200K	$25.00
69	GPT-5.4 nano	OpenAI	46th	400K	$1.25
70	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Vertex AI)	Google	44th	1M	$1.50
71	claude-opus-4-1-20250805	Anthropic	41st	200K	$75.00
72	Qwen3.5 122B-A10B	Alibaba	40th	258K	$0.917
73	Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)	Anthropic	39th	200K	$5.00
74	Qwen3.6 Flash	Alibaba	39th	984K	$1.50
75	Gemini 2.5 Flash	Google	37th	1M	$2.50
76	GPT-4.1	OpenAI	36th	1M	$8.00
77	GPT-5 Nano	OpenAI	33rd	400K	$0.40
78	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Vertex AI)	Google	32nd	1M	$2.50
79	GPT-4.1 mini	OpenAI	27th	1M	$1.60
80	GPT-4.1 nano (Azure)	OpenAI	19th	1M	$0.40
81	Grok Build 0.1	xAI	18th	256K	$2.00
82	GPT-4o (2024-08-06)	OpenAI	18th	128K	$10.00
83	Mistral Large 3	Mistral	14th	262K	$1.50
84	GPT-4o mini	OpenAI	13th	128K	$0.60
85	Grok 4.3	xAI	2nd	1M	$2.50
86	MiMo-V2.5 (Free)	—	—	1M	free
87	MiMo V2.6 Flash	—	—	1M	$0.28
88	Gemma 3 27B IT (Nebius)	Amazon	—	110K	$0.30
89	MiniMax-M3.1-Flash	MiniMax	—	1M	$0.30
90	Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	Google	—	1M	$0.40
91	Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Alibaba	—	131K	$0.42
92	Qwen3.8 Flash	Alibaba	—	1M	$0.47
93	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Google	—	262K	$0.575
94	Mistral Small (latest)	Mistral	—	262K	$0.60
95	Qwen3.5 27B	Alibaba	—	258K	$0.688
96	GPT OSS 120B (IONOS)	OpenAI	—	128K	$0.7262
97	MiMo V2.6 Pro	—	—	1M	$0.87
98	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct (Deep Infra)	Alibaba	—	262K	$0.88
99	GLM-4.5V	Zhipu	—	64K	$0.8964
100	GLM-4.6V	Zhipu	—	131K	$0.90
101	Gemma 4 31B IT	Google	—	131K	$1.15
102	Step 3.7 Flash (Deep Infra)	—	—	262K	$1.15
103	Muse Glimmer 30B (Deep Infra)	Meta	—	131K	$1.20
104	GPT-5.1 Codex mini (Azure)	OpenAI	—	272K	$2.00
105	Step 5 Preview (Deep Infra)	—	—	1M	$2.70
106	Qwen3.8 27B	Alibaba	—	1M	$3.00
107	GLM-5V-Turbo	Zhipu	—	203K	$4.00
108	DeepSeek V3.2	DeepSeek	—	33K	$4.50
109	GPT-6.1 Terra	OpenAI	—	1.1M	$5.00
110	Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B	Alibaba	—	1M	$6.00
111	Kimi K2.7 Code Highspeed	Kimi	—	262K	$8.00
112	GPT-5.1 Codex Max (Azure)	OpenAI	—	272K	$10.00
113	Kimi K3.1 Pro	Kimi	—	1M	$10.00
114	Nano Banana Pro (Vertex AI)	Google	—	66K	$12.00
115	Claude Sonnet 4.6	Anthropic	—	1M	$15.00
116	Kimi K3	Kimi	—	1M	$15.00

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.