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Models that understand images as well as text: photos, diagrams, screenshots and handwriting.

Vision model leaderboard

167 models · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

20 of 167 models in the chart · ·

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Compare#ModelCreatorLicenceInput / 1MScoreFrom votes From tests · countVotes
1GPT-6 Astra (Max) OpenAIProprietary$10.00639548 721 · 34,012
2GPT-5.5 OpenAIProprietary$5.00600552 648 · 428,781
3GPT-5.5 (High) OpenAIProprietary$5.00594539 648 · 427,067
4Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogleProprietary$2.00587530 643 · 347,114
5Claude Opus 5.5 (High) AnthropicProprietary$4.00574574 –3,035
6Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)MetaProprietary$0.10573573 –1,948
7Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)MetaProprietary$0.10563563 –5,392
8Claude Opus 4.7 AnthropicProprietary$5.00560593 493 · 223,139
9Claude Opus 5 (High) AnthropicProprietary$5.00558558 –17,743
10Claude Opus 4.7 (High) AnthropicProprietary$5.00557590 493 · 222,731
11Muse Spark 1.3 (xHigh)MetaProprietary$0.10557557 –4,897
12Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) AnthropicProprietary$10.00557557 –5,026
13Claude Opus 4.6 (High) AnthropicProprietary$5.00555594 517 · 422,286
14Claude Fable 5 (High) AnthropicProprietary$10.00554626 420 · 214,714
15Claude Opus 4.6 AnthropicProprietary$5.00547577 517 · 426,841
16Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)GoogleProprietary$1.50539540 539 · 414,061
17Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)GoogleProprietary$1.50539539 539 · 413,862
18Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)GoogleProprietary$1.50538538 –8,979
19Claude Sonnet 4.6 AnthropicProprietary$3.00535516 554 · 327,408
20Grok 4.5 xAIProprietary$2.00529529 –12,599
21GPT-5.2 Chat (20260210) OpenAIProprietary–524524 –16,465
22Claude Sonnet 5 (High) AnthropicProprietary$2.00518475 562 · 314,034
23Claude Opus 4.8 (High) AnthropicProprietary$5.00515551 481 · 318,303
24GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) OpenAIProprietary$2.00510576 394 · 22,330
25Claude Opus 4.8 AnthropicProprietary$5.00504528 481 · 318,800
26Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)GoogleProprietary$0.75494582 416 · 35,369
27GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh) OpenAIProprietary$5.00491552 387 · 211,439
28Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogleProprietary$0.30490490 –9,238
29Qwen3.8-MaxAlibabaProprietary$1.65490598 397 · 79,957
30Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)GoogleProprietary$0.75488568 416 · 34,645
31GPT-6 Sol (Max) OpenAIProprietary$2.00488488 –3,221
32Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh) AnthropicProprietary$2.00484484 –2,564
33Muse SparkMetaProprietary–483578 401 · 95,865
34Grok 4.6 (High) xAIProprietary$2.00476476 –7,261
35DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max)DeepSeekMIT–473473 –4,100
36Muse Spark 1.1MetaProprietary$1.25465532 406 · 312,804
37GPT-5.4 (High) OpenAIProprietary$2.50460545 387 · 530,747
38Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDanceProprietary–459459 –10,972
39Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309) xAIProprietary–455455 –26,796
40GPT-5.4 OpenAIProprietary$2.50452528 387 · 522,804
41GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh) OpenAIProprietary$2.00446494 365 · 211,842
42Mistral Large 4MistralProprietary$0.70446446 –1,008
43GPT-5.1 (High) OpenAIProprietary$1.25444444 –9,848
44Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (0309) xAIProprietary–441441 –24,532
45GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAIProprietary$5.00441519 375 · 37,590
46Grok 4.7 (xHigh) xAIProprietary$2.00440440 –3,736
47GPT-5.2 (High) OpenAIProprietary$1.75437420 455 · 719,022
48GLM-5.3-Flash Z.aiMIT$0.15433504 374 · 416,254
49Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AIModified MIT$0.75432483 388 · 516,368
50Step 5 PreviewStepFunProprietary–432432 –1,649
51Gemini 3 ProGoogleProprietary–427562 329 · 713,623
52Qwen3.7-PlusAlibabaProprietary–427479 381 · 1514,212
53MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiMIT$0.43425425 –1,754
54MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiMIT$0.14425425 –3,618
55GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh) OpenAIProprietary$0.20421459 357 · 211,055
56Grok 4.3 xAIProprietary$1.25419419 –27,901
57GPT-5.2 OpenAIProprietary$1.75417384 455 · 720,100
58GPT-5 (High) OpenAIProprietary–417346 506 · 734,445
59GPT-6 Luna (Max) OpenAIProprietary$0.10414414 –3,662
60GPT-5.1 OpenAIProprietary$1.25413413 –10,801
61ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326) OpenAIProprietary–409409 –23,400
62Kimi K2.5 (Thinking) Moonshot AIModified MIT–409447 375 · 1328,249
63Gemma 4 31BGoogleApache 2.0$0.09407475 352 · 440,219
64GPT-5.4 mini (High) OpenAIProprietary$0.75406441 375 · 325,734
65Gemini 3 FlashGoogleProprietary$0.50406508 329 · 739,131
66Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibabaApache 2.0$0.45404429 360 · 232,657
67Qwen3.8-27BAlibabaApache 2.0$0.40402419 386 · 77,614
68Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal)GoogleProprietary$0.50390469 329 · 737,173
69Kimi K2.5 (Instant) Moonshot AIModified MIT–389404 375 · 134,111
70MiniMax-M3MiniMaxMiniMax Community License$0.28388396 381 · 419,844
71GLM-5V-Turbo Z.aiProprietary–388388 –42,757
72Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025)GoogleProprietary–388388 –4,792
73MiMo-V2.5XiaomiMIT$0.17384397 371 · 329,381
74Inkling-SmallThinkyApache 2.0$0.30379342 423 · 58,074
75GPT-5 Chat OpenAIProprietary–378378 –39,894
76GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) OpenAIProprietary–376376 –2,925
77Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogleApache 2.0$0.07376418 341 · 423,922
78Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibabaApache 2.0$0.29373379 368 · 2613,236
79Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewGoogleProprietary$0.25365399 335 · 427,657
80ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1220)BaiduProprietary–364364 –3,349
81Qwen3.5-27BAlibabaApache 2.0$0.26363359 366 · 2630,272
82Gemini 2.5 ProGoogleProprietary$1.25361434 306 · 488,755
83MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomiProprietary–357357 –10,650
84GPT-5.4 nano (High) OpenAIProprietary$0.20352324 385 · 525,624
85o3 (2025-04-16) OpenAIProprietary–351357 345 · 945,567
86Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514) AnthropicProprietary–340340 –1,290
87Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514) AnthropicProprietary–338338 –1,144
88Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogleProprietary$0.30336356 303 · 260,087
89NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4)NVIDIAOpenMDW-1.1–333333 –2,509
90Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0$0.20330355 308 · 2312,724
91Mistral Medium 3.5MistralModified MIT$1.50325325 –5,375
92o4-mini (2025-04-16) OpenAIProprietary–325328 323 · 441,316
93Mistral Large 3MistralApache 2.0$0.50324324 –9,254
94Grok 4 (0709) xAIProprietary–322300 377 · 230,173
95Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) xAIProprietary$0.20320320 –13,368
96GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14) OpenAIProprietary$2.00316353 285 · 540,998
97Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219) AnthropicProprietary–314314 –1,436
98Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingAlibabaApache 2.0–308307 310 · 262,387
99Claude Opus 4 (20250514) AnthropicProprietary–308308 –2,172
99o1 (2024-12-17) OpenAIProprietary–308314 296 · 23,694
100Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)GoogleProprietary–307307 –35,914
101Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514) AnthropicProprietary–307307 –1,806
102GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14) OpenAIProprietary$0.40304327 283 · 540,201
103Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13)AlibabaProprietary–302302 –3,170
104GPT-5 mini (High) OpenAIProprietary$0.25300300 –28,943
105Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)GoogleProprietary–288293 283 · 38,902
106Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219) AnthropicProprietary–287287 –4,517
107Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025)GoogleProprietary–286286 –4,862
108Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)GoogleProprietary–283283 –10,135
109GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAIProprietary$2.50269269 –23,273
110GLM-4.6V Z.aiMIT–269269 –2,455
111Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022) AnthropicProprietary–268268 –10,374
112Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508)MistralProprietary–267267 –41,611
113Step-1o Turbo (202506)StepFunProprietary–262262 –1,895
114Mistral Medium 3 (2505)MistralProprietary–262262 –10,793
115Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ThinkingTencentProprietary–261261 –2,424
116Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)GoogleProprietary–261247 276 · 37,241
117GLM-4.5V Z.aiMIT–259259 –3,243
118Hunyuan Large VisionTencentProprietary–255255 –1,274
119Gemma 3 27B ITGoogleGemma$0.08254267 243 · 616,982
120GPT-5 nano (High) OpenAIProprietary–253253 –3,928
121Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)GoogleProprietary–251225 283 · 316,734
122Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E InstructMetaLlama 4–251251 –6,923
123Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620) AnthropicProprietary–250250 –21,624
124Step-3StepFunApache 2.0–250250 –3,193
125Qwen2.5-VL-72B-InstructAlibabaQwen–250227 278 · 163,768
126Qwen2.5-VL-32B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0–248225 276 · 131,490
127Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)MistralApache 2.0–245245 –10,843
128Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)GoogleProprietary–241241 –3,991
129Pixtral Large (2411)MistralMRL–233205 268 · 65,423
130Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructMetaLlama–233233 –6,446
131Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022) AnthropicProprietary–233233 –1,398
132Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)MistralApache 2.0–233233 –28,490
133Qwen2-VL-72BAlibabaQwen–231197 276 · 85,937
134Step-1o Vision 32K (High Res)StepFunProprietary–230230 –2,833
135GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14) OpenAIProprietary$0.10225200 254 · 41,211
136GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAIProprietary$2.50224224 –3,376
137GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18) OpenAIProprietary–223207 262 · 217,341
138Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)GoogleProprietary–220180 276 · 313,260
139GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) OpenAIProprietary$10.00219219 –13,391
139Molmo 2 8BAi2Apache 2.0–219219 –1,190
140Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)GoogleProprietary–218188 256 · 36,243
141Pixtral 12B (2409)MistralApache 2.0–201159 259 · 57,511
142Qwen-VL-Max (1119)AlibabaProprietary–197197 –1,422
143Step-1V 32KStepFunProprietary–183183 –1,534
144Claude 3 Opus (20240229) AnthropicProprietary–181181 –15,565
145Molmo 72B (0924)Ai2Apache 2.0–171171 –3,048
146Hunyuan Standard Vision (2024-12-31)TencentProprietary–169169 –809
147Llama 3.2 90B Vision InstructMetaLlama 3.2–163163 –8,682
148Qwen2-VL-7B-InstructAlibabaApache 2.0–162162 –5,766
149Phi-3.5 Vision InstructMicrosoftMIT–160107 240 · 52,592
150InternVL2 26BUnknownMIT–159159 –5,148
151Amazon Nova Lite 1.0AmazonProprietary–155155 –1,854
152Amazon Nova Pro 1.0AmazonProprietary–155155 –2,335
153Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229) AnthropicProprietary–154154 –12,314
154Yi VisionUnknownProprietary–146146 –1,219
155Aya Vision 32BCohereCC-BY-NC-4.0–145145 –847
156Claude 3 Haiku (20240307) AnthropicProprietary–145145 –13,380
157Molmo 7B-D (0924)Ai2Apache 2.0–142142 –2,815
158Llama 3.2 11B Vision InstructMetaLlama 3.2–141141 –4,817
159nvila-internal-15b-v1NVIDIA-–137137 –1,077
160LLaVA-OneVision Qwen2 72B OVUnknownApache 2.0–134134 –1,321
161LLaVA 1.6 34BUnknownApache 2.0–127127 –4,531
162CogVLM2 Llama3 Chat 19B Z.aiCogVLM2–127127 –1,991
163MiniCPM-V 2.6UnknownApache 2.0–126126 –1,987
164InternVL2 4BUnknownMIT–124124 –3,703
165Phi-3 Vision 128K InstructMicrosoftMIT–9191 –1,401

Leaders by task

The top model for each kind of task, scored from votes on that task alone, and how many models were ranked.

TaskLeaderScoreModels ranked
Captioning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 53734
Chinese Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) 815128
Creative writing about images Gemini 3 Pro 677104
Diagram Claude Fable 5 (High) 750123
English Claude Fable 5 (High) 608167
Homework GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) 764118
Humor Claude Fable 5 (High) 67293
Reading text in images Claude Fable 5 (High) 680123
Recognising people and things Gemini 3 Pro 57051

Fixed tests with right and wrong answers, scored out of 100%.

MMMU-Pro

College-level questions that need both an image and text to answer. · Top 10 of 74 · Higher is better

CharXiv-R

Reading and reasoning about charts from scientific papers. · Top 10 of 61 · Higher is better