Use case

Best AI vision models

Vision models accept image inputs and reason about them. Pricing is usually quoted per image, plus per-token text I/O.

Top 17 models for image understanding

#ModelProviderContextInput price / 1MTier
1Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
2Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
3Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
4Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
5Claude Opus 4Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
6Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
7Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
8Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
9Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
10Claude 3 OpusAnthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
11Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
12Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic200K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
13GPT-4o miniOpenAI128K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable
14Gemini 1.5 FlashGoogle1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
15Gemini 1.5 ProGoogle1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
16Gemini 2.0 FlashGoogle1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
17GPT-4oOpenAI128K
Long context (128K+)
CustomVariable

Frequently asked questions

Which vision model is best for OCR?

Qwen3-VL, Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, and GPT-4o family lead on OCR benchmarks. For low-cost batch OCR, look at smaller VL variants and DeepSeek-VL.

Can these models read PDFs?

All vision models accept page images of PDFs. Some providers also offer native PDF input — see each model page.

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