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Images & vision

What is the best AI for understanding images?

Claude Fable 5 (High) by Anthropic is the best images & vision pick right now, and GLM-5.3 Flash is the best open option.

Winner
Claude Fable 5High
Vision score: 1325 · $20 blended per 1M tokens
Best open
GLM-5.3 FlashOPEN
Vision score: 1294 · $0.045 blended per 1M tokens
Best under $1
GLM-5.3 FlashOPEN
Vision score: 1294 · $0.045 blended per 1M tokens

Top 10 for images & vision

Vision score, a chess-style rating from blind human votes.

1Claude Fable 5High13252Claude Opus 5.5High13213Claude Opus 5High13204Claude Fable 5.1Max13205Claude Opus 4.713176Claude Opus 4.6High13167Gemini 3.8 FlashHigh13158Gemini 3.7 FlashHigh13149Claude Opus 4.7High131310Qwen3.8-Max1313

Based on Arena vision arena: people upload an image, ask a question and vote on the better answer. Bars start at 1280. 167 models have data for this task.

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