Cheapest vision/multimodal LLM leaderboard: the 50 lowest-cost AI models that accept image
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.
10000 (raw units)
price
1
calls / 30d
1
unique payers
2026-08-29
updated
Provider
modelprices.xyz · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
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}
]Output schema
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"output": {
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}Use it
curl
curl "https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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