Best LLMs for vision & multimodal
Image understanding, OCR, screenshots, PDFs. Every model in the catalog, ranked three ways and priced at a realistic 25M input / 4M output tokens a month for this task.
What the engine picks on the default cost/quality/speed mix before you touch a slider.
Top task score (98/100) at $98.0/mo for this volume.
The cheapest model that stays close to the leader on quality — 87/100 at $14.3/mo.
By quality
Highest task score first.
Best value
Most quality per dollar of monthly spend.
Cheapest
Lowest monthly cost at this volume.
Fit to your volume
The ranking above prices a typical month. Enter your own vision & multimodal volume and, if you like, a monthly ceiling — the picks re-rank as you type. No signup.
| Model | Quality | Per month | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 nano OpenAI | 78 | $2.85 | 27.37 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral | 76 | $3.70 | 20.54 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google | 80 | $4.10 | 19.51 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast xAI | 84 | $7.00 | 12.00 |
| Llama 4 Maverick Meta | 85 | $10.2 | 8.37 |
| GPT-5 mini OpenAI | 87 | $14.3 | 6.11 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | 90 | $17.5 | 5.14 |
| Mistral Medium 3 Mistral | 82 | $18.0 | 4.56 |
Value = quality points per dollar of monthly spend at your volume. Quality scores are benchmark-informed estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before migrating.
Price your own vision & multimodal volume
These rankings use a typical monthly volume. Plug in your real token counts and the free estimator re-ranks every model on cost and quality.
Open the estimatorEmbed the live pick
A self-updating SVG badge of the balanced pick for vision & multimodal. Drop it in a README or blog — it re-renders the day the catalog changes.
Best models for other tasks
Prices are list $/1M tokens, hand-maintained from public provider pricing. Quality scores are benchmark-informed 0-100 estimates, not evals — validate on your own workload before moving production traffic. Not affiliated with any model provider. Compare Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5 mini