Image understanding and classification
11
Models
12
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 | MMLU | GPQA | GAIA | HumanEval | $/M In | Speed | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen Self-Host |
| 42.2 |
| 54.1 |
| 235B |
| 82.3 |
| 71.2 |
| 44.2 |
| 59.4 |
$0.2000/M Cheapest verified |
| — |
5 | Qwen VL Max Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 41.3 | 33.3 | Unknown | — | — | — | — | $0.5200/M Cheapest verified | — |
4 | Qwen VL Plus Qwen Open WeightsStructured | 39.7 | 22.0 | Unknown | — | — | — | — | $0.1365/M Cheapest verified | — |
7 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen Self-HostStructured | 39.5 | 44.5 | 235B | — | — | 44.2 | — | $0.2600/M Cheapest verified | — |
6 | Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct Meta Open WeightsStructured | 38.3 | 28.9 | 11B | — | — | — | — | $0.2450/M Cheapest verified | — |
13 | nemotron-ocr-v2 NVIDIA Free TrialProvider-reported* | 13.2 | 36.4 | Undisclosed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
10 | Zero-To-CAD-Qwen3-VL-2B ADSKAILab Self-HostStructured | — | — | 2B | — | — | 44.2 | — | 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 | — |