Top Cheap Vision AI Models
The best cheap vision AI models right now, ranked and compared on price, context window and features. 56 models match. These are models that cost $1 or less per million output tokens, and models that can read images.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Xiaomi · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.435 in
$0.870 out - Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic · 1M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.500 out - MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.150 in
$0.600 out - GLM 5.3 Flash
Z.ai · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.150 in
$0.500 out - GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.500 out - MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Xiaomi · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.140 in
$0.280 out - DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.216 in
$0.647 out - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.140 in
$0.420 out - Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Inclusionai · 131K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.060 in
$0.180 out - Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.140 in
$1.00 out - Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.900 out - Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.170 in
$0.250 out - GPT-5 Nano
OpenAI · 400K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.050 in
$0.400 out - Mistral Small 4
Mistral · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.150 in
$0.600 out - GLM 4.6V
Z.ai · 131K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.300 in
$0.900 out - Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Google · 1.05M context · No training · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.400 out - Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Reasoning · Tools
$0.290 in
$1.00 out - Llama 4 Maverick
Meta · 524K context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.188 in
$0.652 out - Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.150 in
$0.600 out - GPT-4.1 Nano
OpenAI · 1.05M context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.400 out - Sonar
Perplexity · 127K context · ZDR · Images
$1.00 in
$1.00 out - Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen · 262K context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.250 in
$0.750 out - Nova Lite 1.0
Amazon · 300K context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.060 in
$0.240 out - GPT-4o-mini
OpenAI · 128K context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.150 in
$0.600 out - Llama 4 Scout
Meta · 1.31M context · ZDR · Images · Tools
$0.100 in
$0.300 out
Prices are per 1M tokens. Ranked by intelligence score where available, then newest.