Cheapest vision/multimodal LLM leaderboard
Cheapest vision/multimodal LLM leaderboard: the 50 lowest-cost AI models that accept image input, ranked by token price across every provider — GPT-5, Claude 5, Gemini 3, Llama 4, Qwen VL and more. Input, output and cache USD per 1M tokens with context window joined in. Answers 'what is the cheapest model that can read images?' in one call. Refreshed hourly.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
1042 msmedian answer time
$0.01listed price per call
$0.01price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision
| Category | Image and media |
|---|---|
| Provider host | modelprices.xyz |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.01 | 1042 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}