Image understanding and classification
11
Models
10
Benchmarks
8
Providers
10
Open Weight
11
Deployable Now
10 self-host
6
Structured benchmark-backed rows
1
Signal-backed rows without full normalized tables
2
Benchmark-expected rows still catching up
| # | Model | Economic Footprint | Quality | Params | MMMU | MathVista | OCRBench | SWE-Bench | $/M In | Speed | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5 | Qwen VL Max Qwen Open Weights |
| 41.3 |
| 33.3 |
| Unknown |
| 52.0 |
| 43.6 |
| 68.4 |
| 69.6 |
$0.5200/M Cheapest verified |
| — |
4 | Qwen VL Plus Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 39.7 | 22.0 | Unknown | 39.8 | 38.2 | 72.6 | 69.6 | $0.1365/M Cheapest verified | — |
13 | nemotron-ocr-v2 NVIDIA Free TrialProvider-reported* | 13.2 | 36.4 | Undisclosed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2 | Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Qwen Self-HostStructured | — | — | 32B | — | — | — | 69.6 | $0.1040/M Cheapest verified | — |
6 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta Open WeightsStructured | — | — | 11B | 48.0 | 47.7 | 75.3 | — | $0.2450/M Cheapest verified | — |
8 | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Qwen Self-HostStructured | — | — | 8B | — | — | — | 69.6 | $0.1170/M Cheapest verified | — |
10 | Zero-To-CAD-Qwen3-VL-2B ADSKAILab Self-HostStructured | — | — | 2B | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
11 | FireRed-OCR FireRedTeam Open WeightsPending | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
12 | Falcon-OCR tiiuae Open WeightsPending | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
14 | OppaiOracle Grio43 Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
15 | NuExtract3 numind Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |