Best AI for Image Captioning: Vision Arena

Vision Arena🖼️Captioning

View overall rankings across multimodal AI models capable of reasoning over visual inputs.

Oct 2, 2026

4,197 votes

34 models

	Rank Spread
1	116	gemini-3.1-pro-preview Google · Proprietary	1279±48	136	$1 / $6	1M
2	115	gemini-3-pro Google · Proprietary	1274±37	219	$2 / $12	1M
3	128	gpt-5.2-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1263±57	94	$0.88 / $7	400K
4	121	gemini-2.5-pro Google · Proprietary	1250±23	795	$1.25 / $10	1M
5	128	gpt-5.1-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1247±55	101	$0.63 / $5	400K
6	130	gemma-4-26b-a4b Google · Apache 2.0	1242±71	63	N/A	N/A
7	128	gemini-3-flash Google · Proprietary	1234±39	192	$0.50 / $3	1M
8	130	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview Google · Proprietary	1227±64	73	$0.25 / $1.50	1M
9	128	gemini-2.5-flash Google · Proprietary	1212±26	581	$0.30 / $2.50	1M
10	129	chatgpt-4o-latest-20250326 OpenAI · Proprietary	1212±36	273	$5 / $15	128K
11	129	gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 OpenAI · Proprietary	1211±32	421	$2 / $8	1M
12	130	qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1210±46	146	$0.29 / $1.15	262.1K
13	130	gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal) Google · Proprietary	1209±43	173	$0.50 / $3	1M
14	132	kimi-k2.5-thinking Moonshot · Modified MIT	1199±48	125	$0.60 / $3	N/A
15	330	gpt-5-chat OpenAI · Proprietary	1195±32	375	$5 / $30	N/A
16	133	glm-5v-turbo Z.ai · Proprietary	1195±76	53	$1.20 / $4	202.8K
17	331	gpt-5-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1194±36	357	$0.63 / $5	400K
18	331	gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 OpenAI · Proprietary	1193±34	395	$0.40 / $1.60	1M
19	432	o4-mini-2025-04-16 OpenAI · Proprietary	1184±32	424	$1.10 / $4.40	200K
20	432	gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking Google · Proprietary	1183±33	386	$0.10 / $0.40	1M
21	432	o3-2025-04-16 OpenAI · Proprietary	1183±30	541	$2 / $8	200K
22	233	qwen3.5-397b-a17b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1178±58	77	$0.55 / $3.50	262.1K
23	333	gemma-4-31b Google · Apache 2.0	1175±55	106	$0.99 / $1.49	131.1K
24	433	gpt-5-mini-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1174±43	283	$0.13 / $1	400K
25	333	gpt-5.2 OpenAI · Proprietary	1173±55	107	$0.88 / $7	400K
26	433	grok-4-0709 SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1171±37	352	$1.25 / $2.50	256K
27	433	gpt-5.1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1157±48	122	$0.63 / $5	400K
28	434	gemini-2.0-flash-001 Google · Proprietary	1150±60	106	$0.10 / $0.40	1M
29	1034	mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-2503 Mistral · Apache 2.0	1132±39	258	$0.10 / $0.30	32K
30	1534	mistral-medium-2508 Mistral · Proprietary	1130±31	404	$0.40 / $2	131.1K
31	1734	gemma-3-27b-it Google · Gemma	1115±39	257	$0.08 / $0.45	131.1K
32	834	qwen3.5-27b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1097±82	61	$0.26 / $2.60	262.1K
33	2134	mistral-medium-2505 Mistral · Proprietary	1091±50	160	$0.40 / $2	131.1K
34	2834	mistral-small-2506 Mistral · Apache 2.0	1051±50	178	$0.10 / $0.30	32K

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