COMPUTED FROM THE CATALOG
Best models for reading images, by input price
Models that accept images and answer in text, lowest input price first.
How this list is computed
Models that accept image input, write text and have a listed price. Sorted by input price per million tokens, lowest first (models listed as free come first); ties go to the larger context window, then the name.
211 of the 350 models in the 2026-10-24 snapshot qualify. This is not a quality ranking: SEKAI has no benchmark data.
| # | Model | Provider | Added | Context | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyria 3 Clip PreviewFree per million input tokens | 2026-03-30 | 1.05M | Free | Free | |
| 2 | Lyria 3 Pro PreviewFree per million input tokens | 2026-03-30 | 1.05M | Free | Free | |
| 3 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.020 per million input tokens | DeepSeek | 2026-09-10 | 1.05M | $0.020 | $1.00 |
| 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash$0.030 per million input tokens | Qwen | 2026-07-27 | 1M | $0.030 | $0.130 |
| 5 | Nex-N2.5-Mini$0.030 per million input tokens | Nex AGI | 2026-09-08 | 262K | $0.030 | $0.100 |
| 6 | Extract$0.040 per million input tokens | ScaleDown | 2026-10-13 | 1M | $0.040 | Free |
| 7 | Summarize$0.040 per million input tokens | ScaleDown | 2026-10-13 | 1M | $0.040 | Free |
| 8 | Gemma 3 4B$0.040 per million input tokens | 2025-03-13 | 131K | $0.040 | $0.050 | |
| 9 | GPT-5 Nano$0.050 per million input tokens | OpenAI | 2025-08-07 | 400K | $0.050 | $0.400 |
| 10 | Gemma 3 12B$0.050 per million input tokens | 2025-03-13 | 131K | $0.050 | $0.150 |
Questions and answers
Which model comes first in this list?
Lyria 3 Clip Preview from Google: Free per million input tokens.
How many models meet the criteria?
211 of the 350 models in the 2026-10-24 snapshot.
Which qualifying model has the largest context window?
Grok 4.20 (SpaceXAI), with 2M tokens.
Answers are computed from the 2026-10-24 catalog snapshot.