Image understanding and classification
12
Models
12
Benchmarks
9
Providers
11
Open Weight
12
Deployable Now
11 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 | GAIA | HumanEval | MMLU | TerminalBench 2.0 | $/M In | Speed | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen Open Weights |
| 43.0 |
| 41.9 |
| 235B |
| 44.2 |
| 59.4 |
| 82.3 |
| 45.3 |
$0.2000/M Cheapest verified |
| — |
2 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta Open WeightsStructured | 39.3 | 21.5 | 11B | — | — | — | — | $0.3450/M Cheapest verified | — |
4 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 37.3 | 39.0 | 235B | 44.2 | — | — | — | $0.2600/M Cheapest verified | — |
8 | Qwen VL Max Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 30.9 | 32.9 | Unknown | — | — | — | — | $0.5200/M Cheapest verified | — |
9 | Qwen VL Plus Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 30.8 | 21.6 | Unknown | — | — | — | — | $0.1365/M Cheapest verified | — |
15 | nemotron-ocr-v2 NVIDIA Free TrialProvider-reported* | 13.6 | 36.9 | Undisclosed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
10 | Zero-To-CAD-Qwen3-VL-2B ADSKAILab Open WeightsStructured | — | — | 2B | 44.2 | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
11 | NuExtract3 numind Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
12 | FireRed-OCR FireRedTeam Open WeightsPending | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
13 | PP-OCRv6_medium_det_safetensors PaddlePaddle Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
14 | Falcon-OCR tiiuae Open WeightsPending | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
16 | OppaiOracle Grio43 Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | — | Free Free | — |