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Best Multimodal AI Models in October 2026
As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads the Noometry multimodal ranking with a score of 57.8, ahead of Gemini 3 Pro at 57.6. The two are close enough that new results could swap them.
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- Claude Opus 5.5 57.8
- Gemini 3 Pro 57.6
- GPT-6 Astra 55.0
- Claude Fable 5.1 53.9
- GPT-6.1 Sol 52.7
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 51.5
- GPT-5.2 51.3
- Claude Opus 5 50.8
- GPT-5.6 Sol 48.6
- GPT-6 Sol 47.6
Full ranking
126 models
| 1 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 57.8 | $4 | $20 | — |
| 2 |  Google Gemini 3 Pro | Proprietary | — | 57.6 | — | — | 1 | |
| 3 | OpenAI GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 55.0 | $10 | $50 | — |
| 4 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 53.9 | $10 | $50 | — |
| 5 | OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 52.7 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 6 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 51.5 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 7 | OpenAI GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 51.3 | $1.75 | $14 | 15 |
| 8 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 50.8 | $5 | $25 | — |
| 9 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 48.6 | $4 | $20 | 10 |
| 10 | OpenAI GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 47.6 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 11 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 47.3 | $2 | $12 | 11 |
| 12 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 46.9 | $5 | $30 | 25 |
| 13 | OpenAI GPT-5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 46.8 | $1.25 | $10 | 2 |
| 14 | Google Gemini 4 Argon | Proprietary | — | 46.5 | — | — | — | |
| 15 | Google Gemini 3.5 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 45.7 | $1.50 | $9 | — | |
| 16 | Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Proprietary | 1.05M | 45.5 | $0.50 | $3 | — | |
| 17 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 45.3 | $10 | $50 | 25 |
| 18 | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Proprietary | 1.05M | 45.2 | $1.25 | $10 | 5 | |
| 19 | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 44.8 | $1.25 | $10 | — |
| 20 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 43.7 | $2.50 | $15 | 12 |
| 21 |  Meta Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 43.7 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 22 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 43.7 | $0.10 | $0.50 | — |
| 23 | xAI Grok 4.6 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 43.6 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 24 | Meta Muse Spark | Meta | Proprietary | — | 43.4 | — | — | — |
| 25 | Meta Muse Spark 1.2 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 43.4 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 26 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 42.9 | $5 | $25 | 34 |
| 27 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 42.8 | $0.15 | $0.50 | — |
| 28 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 42.7 | $0.20 | $1.20 | 12 |
| 29 | Meta Muse Spark 1.1 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 42.6 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 30 | OpenAI GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 42.4 | $0.10 | $0.50 | — |
| 31 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 42.4 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 32 | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 41.8 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 152 | |
| 33 |  Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 41.8 | $0.40 | $1.60 | — |
| 34 | Google Gemma 4 31B IT | Open | 262K | 41.6 | $0.09 | $0.34 | 3 | |
| 35 |  ByteDance Seed Seed 2.0 Pro | ByteDance Seed | Proprietary | 256K | 41.5 | $0.50 | $3 | — |
| 36 | OpenAI o3 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 41.4 | $2 | $8 | 3 |
| 37 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.8 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 41.3 | $0.99 | $1.49 | — |
| 38 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 41.2 | $5 | $25 | 33 |
| 39 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 41.1 | $0.45 | $2.25 | 66 |
| 40 | Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 41.1 | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | |
| 41 |  StepFun Step 5 Preview | StepFun | Proprietary | 1.02M | 41.0 | $1 | $2.70 | — |
| 42 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5V-Turbo | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Proprietary | 200K | 40.9 | $1.20 | $4 | — |
| 43 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 40.8 | $0.43 | $0.87 | — |
| 44 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 40.7 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 9 |
| 45 | Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 40.7 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 46 | Google Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | Open | 262K | 40.6 | $0.0675 | $0.23 | — | |
| 47 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 40.5 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 48 | xAI Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 40.5 | $1.25 | $2.50 | — |
| 49 | OpenAI o4-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 40.2 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 6 |
| 50 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 Instant | Moonshot AI | Open | — | 40.2 | — | — | — |
| 51 |  MiniMax MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | Open | 1M | 40.2 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — |
| 52 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 Instant | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 40.0 | — | — | — |
| 53 |  Baidu ERNIE 5.0 0110 | Baidu | Proprietary | — | 39.9 | — | — | — |
| 54 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 39.8 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 55 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 39.8 | $0.70 | $2.80 | — |
| 56 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 39.7 | $0.75 | $4.50 | 10 |
| 57 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 39.6 | $0.40 | $3.20 | — |
| 58 | OpenAI Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 39.6 | — | — | 21 |
| 59 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 39.4 | $0.30 | $2.40 | — |
| 60 | Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 39.4 | $0.25 | $1.50 | 10 | |
| 61 |  DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 39.1 | $0.15 | $0.60 | — |
| 62 | Thinking Machines Lab Inkling-Small | Thinking Machines Lab | Open | 524K | 39.1 | $0.45 | $1.20 | — |
| 63 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Omni | Xiaomi | Proprietary | 262K | 38.6 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 64 | Google Gemini 3.6 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 38.5 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 65 |  Mistral AI Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 38.3 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 50 |
| 66 | Mistral AI Mistral Large 3 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 38.2 | $0.25 | $0.75 | 7 |
| 67 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 38.2 | $2 | $8 | 116 |
| 68 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 38.0 | $3 | $15 | — |
| 69 | Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Proprietary | 1.05M | 37.9 | $2 | $12 | — | |
| 70 | Moonshot AI Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | Open | 1.05M | 37.8 | $3 | $15 | — |
| 71 | OpenAI GPT-4.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 37.6 | — | — | — |
| 72 | xAI Grok 4.5 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 37.6 | $2 | $6 | 4 |
| 73 | Google Gemini 3.7 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 37.3 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 74 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 37.3 | $5 | $25 | 19 |
| 75 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.8 Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 37.2 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 76 | xAI Grok 4.1 Fast | xAI | Proprietary | 128K | 37.0 | $0.20 | $0.50 | — |
| 77 | Google Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Proprietary | — | 36.8 | — | — | — | |
| 78 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 36.7 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 19 |
| 79 | Google Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Proprietary | — | 36.5 | — | — | 92 | |
| 80 | StepFun Step 1o Turbo 202506 | StepFun | Proprietary | — | 36.1 | — | — | — |
| 81 | Google Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Proprietary | — | 36.0 | — | — | — | |
| 82 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 35.8 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 86 |
| 83 |  Tencent Hunyuan Vision 1.5 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 35.7 | — | — | — |
| 84 | Tencent Hunyuan Large Vision | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 35.7 | — | — | — |
| 85 | OpenAI GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 35.6 | $0.25 | $2 | 3 |
| 86 | StepFun Step 3 | StepFun | Open | — | 35.5 | — | — | 7 |
| 87 | xAI Grok 4.7 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 35.5 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 88 | Mistral AI Mistral Medium | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 35.3 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 68 |
| 89 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 34.8 | $3 | $15 | 85 |
| 90 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 128K | 34.8 | $0.30 | $0.90 | — |
| 91 | OpenAI GPT-4o | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 34.5 | $2.50 | $10 | — |
| 92 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 64K | 34.3 | $0.60 | $1.80 | 34 |
| 93 | OpenAI o1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 34.2 | $15 | $60 | — |
| 94 | xAI Grok 4 | xAI | Proprietary | — | 33.7 | — | — | 1 |
| 95 | Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 33.7 | — | — | — |
| 96 | Mistral AI Mistral Small | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 33.5 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 120 |
| 97 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 33.5 | $2.80 | $8.40 | 43 |
| 98 | xAI Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 33.3 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 61 |
| 99 | Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1 | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 33.2 | $0.35 | $0.56 | — |
| 100 | Google Gemma 3 27B | Open | 131K | 32.6 | $0.08 | $0.16 | 62 | |
| 101 | Meta Llama 4 Scout | Meta | Open | 128K | 32.2 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 272 |
| 102 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 31.6 | $0.95 | $4 | — |
| 103 | xAI Grok 4.3 | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 31.6 | $1.25 | $2.50 | — |
| 104 | Meta Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | Open | 128K | 31.6 | $0.19 | $0.65 | 456 |
| 105 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 31.5 | $15 | $75 | 29 |
| 106 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 31.4 | $5 | $25 | 13 |
| 107 | OpenAI GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 31.3 | $0.05 | $0.40 | 4 |
| 108 | Google Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Proprietary | — | 31.2 | — | — | — | |
| 109 | OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 30.6 | $10 | $30 | — |
| 110 | Mistral AI Pixtral Large | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 30.6 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 111 |  Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Molmo 2 8b | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 30.2 | — | — | — |
| 112 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 29.2 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 135 |
| 113 | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 29.1 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 172 | |
| 114 | Google Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Proprietary | — | 28.2 | — | — | — | |
| 115 | Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 27.1 | — | — | — |
| 116 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 26.8 | $15 | $75 | — |
| 117 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 26.8 | $1 | $5 | — |
| 118 | Anthropic Claude 3.5 Haiku | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 26.8 | — | — | — |
| 119 | Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 26.5 | — | — | — |
| 120 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 26.2 | $3 | $15 | 31 |
| 121 | OpenAI GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 25.9 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 120 |
| 122 | Amazon Amazon Nova Lite | Amazon | Proprietary | 300K | 25.5 | $0.06 | $0.24 | — |
| 123 | Meta Llama 3.2 90B | Meta | Open | — | 25.4 | — | — | — |
| 124 | Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 25.2 | — | — | — |
| 125 | Amazon Amazon Nova Pro | Amazon | Proprietary | 300K | 25.0 | $0.80 | $3.20 | — |
| 126 | Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 23.6 | — | — | 41 |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI model for images and documents?
As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads the Noometry multimodal ranking with a score of 57.8, ahead of Gemini 3 Pro at 57.6. The two are close enough that new results could swap them.
What are the top 5 in this ranking?
Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6.1 Sol, in that order, as of October 2026.
How is this list ranked?
By the category score, which is fitted from every public benchmark result and adjusted for how hard each benchmark is. Models need several independent results to be ranked.