Cheapest for a need

The cheapest models that read images

It takes images as input, as the upstream's catalog lists its input modalities.

Ranked by what a typical message costs at the price you are billed: about 500 tokens sent and 500 written.

Every price here is the upstream's published price plus 10%, the same for every account.

qualify: 193
worlds charted: 464

The 10 cheapest

1Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAI · inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl262k contextTry it
A messageless than 1/100 of a cent
In / 1M$0.0231
Out / 1M$0.06776
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2Nex-N2.5-MiniNex AGI · nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini262k contextTry it
A messageless than 1/100 of a cent
In / 1M$0.0275
Out / 1M$0.11
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3Gemma 3 4BGoogle · google/gemma-3-4b-it131k contextTry it
A messageless than 1/100 of a cent
In / 1M$0.055
Out / 1M$0.11
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4Qwen3.7 FlashQwen · qwen/qwen3.7-flash1M contextTry it
A messageless than 1/100 of a cent
In / 1M$0.033
Out / 1M$0.143
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5Gemma 3 12BGoogle · google/gemma-3-12b-it131k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.01¢
In / 1M$0.055
Out / 1M$0.165
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6Ministral 3 3B 2512Mistral · mistralai/ministral-3b-2512131k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.01¢
In / 1M$0.11
Out / 1M$0.11
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7Reka EdgeRekaai · rekaai/reka-edge16k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.01¢
In / 1M$0.11
Out / 1M$0.11
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8Qwen3.5-9BQwen · qwen/qwen3.5-9b262k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.01¢
In / 1M$0.11
Out / 1M$0.165
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9Nova Lite 1.0Amazon · amazon/nova-lite-v1300k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.02¢
In / 1M$0.066
Out / 1M$0.264
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10UI-TARS 7BByteDance · bytedance/ui-tars-1.5-7b128k contextTry it
A messageabout 0.02¢
In / 1M$0.11
Out / 1M$0.22
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183 more qualify. See them on the price list.

11 worlds priced at zero also qualify; they are on the free models page.

What this list does not say

Price is the only thing it ranks. Nothing here scores how well a world does a task, so the cheapest is not a claim about the best. Try two in chat before you build on one; chat needs no key. A world with no published price is never listed here.