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Cheapest Vision
by modelprices.xyz in AI models & inference
x402 APIPassing, checked 3 h ago
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.
GET https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 29 ms typical, 99 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 3 h ago
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
# See the payment challenge (nothing is charged)
curl -i -X GET "https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision"import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
const client = new x402Client().register(
"eip155:8453",
new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY)),
);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? Preflight it first for $0.005:
// GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmodelprices.xyz%2Fllm%2Fcheapest%2Fvision
const res = await pay("https://modelprices.xyz/llm/cheapest/vision");
console.log(await res.json());Example input
{}Example output
{
"board": "Cheapest vision models",
"generated_at": "2026-07-14T02:00:00.000Z",
"model_count": 24,
"models": [
{
"context_window": 200000,
"id": "gemini-3-flash",
"input_per_mtok": 3,
"output_per_mtok": 15,
"provider": "anthropic"
}
]
}Security scan
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