Vision (image-input) AI models, cheapest first
213 models, updated 2026-06-21. Figures in USD per 1M tokens, sourced from public APIs.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input | Output | Reason | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8 | Llama | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Devstral Small 2 | Mistral | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 4 31B (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lyria 3 Clip Preview | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Lyria 3 Pro Preview | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Nex-N2-Pro (free) | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) | OpenRouter | 256,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | |
| Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free Models Router | OpenRouter | 200,000 | $0 | $0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | 400,000 | $0.05 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 3 12B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| Gemma 3 4B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.05 | $0.1 | ||
| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | 262,144 | $0.06 | $0.33 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | OpenRouter | 300,000 | $0.06 | $0.24 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0.065 | $0.26 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen-Omni Turbo | Alibaba | 32,768 | $0.07 | $0.27 | ✓ | |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | 1,048,576 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ||
| Seed 1.6 Flash | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.075 | $0.3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.075 | $0.2 | ✓ | |
| Gemma 3 27B | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.16 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.08 | $0.5 | ✓ | |
| Qwen2.5-Omni 7B | Alibaba | 32,768 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | 1,048,576 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | ||
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 1,048,576 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gemini Flash-Lite Latest | 1,048,576 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mistral Small 3.2 | Mistral | 128,000 | $0.1 | $0.3 | ✓ | |
| GPT-4.1 nano | OpenAI | 1,047,576 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | |
| Seed-2.0-Mini | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| UI-TARS 7B | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.1 | $0.2 | ||
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0.1 | $0.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama 4 Scout | OpenRouter | 327,680 | $0.1 | $0.3 | ✓ | |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.1 | $0.1 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3.5 9B | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.1 | $0.15 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reka Edge | OpenRouter | 16,384 | $0.1 | $0.1 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.104 | $0.416 | ✓ | |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E | Groq | 131,072 | $0.11 | $0.34 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.117 | $1.365 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemma 4 31B IT | 262,144 | $0.12 | $0.35 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.13 | $0.52 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.13 | $1.56 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.14 | $1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.14 | $1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | 1,048,576 | $0.14 | $0.28 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral Small 4 | Mistral | 256,000 | $0.15 | $0.6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral Small (latest) | Mistral | 256,000 | $0.15 | $0.6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pixtral 12B | Mistral | 128,000 | $0.15 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | 128,000 | $0.15 | $0.6 | ✓ | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | OpenRouter | 1,048,576 | $0.15 | $0.6 | ✓ | |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.15 | $0.15 | ✓ | |
| GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.15 | $0.6 | ✓ | |
| Perceptron Mk1 | OpenRouter | 32,768 | $0.15 | $1.5 | ✓ | |
| Llama Guard 4 12B | OpenRouter | 163,840 | $0.18 | $0.18 | ||
| Qwen3.6 Flash | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.1875 | $1.125 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 27B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.195 | $1.56 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.2 | $0.8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3-VL Plus | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.2 | $1.6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPT-5.4 nano | OpenAI | 400,000 | $0.2 | $1.25 | ✓ | ✓ |
| MiniMax-01 | OpenRouter | 1,000,192 | $0.2 | $1.1 | ||
| Ministral 3 14B 2512 | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.2 | $0.2 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.2 | $0.88 | ✓ | |
| Step 3.7 Flash | OpenRouter | 256,000 | $0.2 | $1.15 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen-VL Plus | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.21 | $0.63 | ✓ | |
| Claude Haiku 3 | Anthropic | 200,000 | $0.25 | $1.25 | ✓ | |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 1,048,576 | $0.25 | $1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | 1,048,576 | $0.25 | $1.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | 400,000 | $0.25 | $2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPT-5.1 Codex mini | OpenAI | 400,000 | $0.25 | $2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Claude 3 Haiku | OpenRouter | 200,000 | $0.25 | $1.25 | ✓ | |
| Seed 1.6 | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.25 | $2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seed-2.0-Lite | OpenRouter | 262,144 | $0.25 | $2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.26 | $2.08 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.26 | $2.6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0.26 | $1.56 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen-Omni Turbo Realtime | Alibaba | 32,768 | $0.27 | $1.07 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3.6 27B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.2885 | $3.17 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 1,048,576 | $0.3 | $2.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nano Banana | 32,768 | $0.3 | $30 | ✓ | ||
| Gemini Flash Latest | 1,048,576 | $0.3 | $2.5 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax (minimaxi.com) | 512,000 | $0.3 | $1.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nova 2 Lite | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0.3 | $2.5 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | OpenRouter | 1,000,000 | $0.3 | $1.8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| GLM-4.6V | Z.AI | 128,000 | $0.3 | $0.9 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.32 | $1.28 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.325 | $1.95 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct | OpenRouter | 131,072 | $0.345 | $0.345 | ||
| Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct | Alibaba | 131,072 | $0.35 | $1.05 | ✓ | |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | OpenRouter | 128,000 | $0.351 | $0.555 | ||
| Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI (China) | 262,144 | $0.375 | $2.025 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Alibaba | 262,144 | $0.385 | $2.45 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen3.5 Plus | Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.4 | $2.4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral | 131,072 | $0.4 | $2 | ✓ | |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral | 262,144 | $0.4 | $2 | ✓ | |
| Mistral Medium (latest) | Mistral | 262,144 | $0.4 | $2 | ✓ | |
| GPT-4.1 mini | OpenAI | 1,047,576 | $0.4 | $1.6 | ✓ | |
| MiMo-V2-Omni | Xiaomi | 262,144 | $0.4 | $2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | OpenRouter | 123,000 | $0.42 | $1.25 | ✓ | |
| Qwen3-Omni Flash | Alibaba | 65,536 | $0.43 | $1.66 | ✓ | ✓ |