Image Generation Models
Updated
Models that create pictures from a text prompt or edit an existing image, scored by how often voters prefer them.
- Best overall
GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst OpenAIHighest Preference score for text to image
843 / 1,000 preference
- Best for editing GPT-Image-2.5 Flare OpenAI
Highest Preference score for image editing
747 / 1,000 preference
- Best value GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity) OpenAI
Lowest price per image in the top 20
$0.000 per image
Image model leaderboard
91 models · Preference score out of 1,000: 500 is a typical model, 1,000 one voters would always pick
20 of 91 models in the chart · ·
All models
| Compare | # | Model | Creator | Licence | Per image | Preference | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 843 | 40,323 | |
| 2 | GPT-Image-2.5 Flare | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 822 | 39,218 | |
| 3 | GPT-Image-2 (Medium) | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.05 | 805 | 103,385 | |
| 4 | MAI-Image-2.6 |  Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 753 | 34,596 | |
| 5 | Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 |  Google | Proprietary | – | 749 | 5,290 | |
| 6 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 |   xAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 740 | 10,902 | |
| 7 | Reve 2.1 |  Reve | Proprietary | – | 721 | 8,243 | |
| 8 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (20260801) | xAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 707 | 26,191 | |
| 9 | Muse Image |  Meta | Proprietary | $0.01 | 683 | 53,444 | |
| 10 | Reve 2.0 | Reve | Proprietary | – | 682 | 15,768 | |
| 11 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search) | Google | Proprietary | $0.02 | 668 | 73,278 | |
| 12 | Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro |  Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 665 | 11,444 | |
| 13 | MAI-Image-2.5 | Microsoft | Proprietary | $0.05 | 663 | 61,286 | |
| 14 | Seedream 5.0 Pro |  ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 660 | 105,824 | |
| 15 | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite) | Google | Proprietary | – | 659 | 17,813 | |
| 16 | Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K) | Google | Proprietary | $0.13 | 654 | 188,288 | |
| 17 | GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity) | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.000 | 641 | 174,012 | |
| 18 | Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro) | Google | Proprietary | $0.13 | 635 | 86,470 | |
| 19 | Qwen-Image-2.1 | Alibaba | qwen-research | – | 627 | 19,604 | |
| 20 | Riverflow 2.0 Pro |  Sourceful | Proprietary | $0.15 | 604 | – | |
| 21 | Ideogram 4.0 (Quality) | Ideogram | Ideogram Open Model | – | 592 | 72,865 | |
| 22 | Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 580 | 13,092 | |
| 23 | UNI-1.1 Max |   Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 576 | 14,076 | |
| 24 | MAI-Image-2 | Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 569 | 51,442 | |
| 25 | UNI-1.1 | Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 568 | 55,179 | |
| 26 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) | Google | Proprietary | $0.04 | 561 | – | |
| 27 | Grok Imagine Image | xAI | Proprietary | $0.02 | 549 | 286,515 | |
| 28 | Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro |   Recraft | Proprietary | – | 547 | 2,618 | |
| 29 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) |  NVIDIA | OpenMDW-1.1 | – | 542 | 10,803 | |
| 30 | FLUX.2 [max] |   Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.06 | 538 | 123,144 | |
| 31 | Grok Imagine Image Pro | xAI | Proprietary | – | 537 | 99,389 | |
| 32 | FLUX.2 [flex] | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.05 | 530 | 156,876 | |
| 33 | Reve v1.5 | Reve | Proprietary | – | 528 | 39,704 | |
| 34 | FLUX.2 [pro] | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.02 | 525 | 223,179 | |
| 35 | HunyuanImage 3.0 |  Tencent | tencent-hunyuan-community | – | 522 | 180,498 | |
| 36 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image | NVIDIA | OpenMDW-1.1 | – | 522 | 18,480 | |
| 37 | Seedream 4.5 | ByteDance | Proprietary | $0.04 | 519 | 318,120 | |
| 38 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana) | Google | Proprietary | – | 519 | 907,282 | |
| 39 | Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001) | Google | Proprietary | – | 516 | 388,723 | |
| 40 | FLUX.2 [dev] | Black Forest Labs | flux-non-commercial-license | $0.01 | 514 | 77,975 | |
| 41 | FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo | Black Forest Labs | FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial License | $0.008 | 514 | – | |
| 42 | Seedream 4 | ByteDance | Proprietary | $0.03 | 510 | – | |
| 43 | Seedream 5.0 Lite | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 506 | 141,120 | |
| 44 | Seedream 4.0 (2K) | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 505 | 12,563 | |
| 45 | Wan 2.6 | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 504 | 247,795 | |
| 46 | Recraft V4.1 Pro | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 495 | 2,796 | |
| 47 | Imagen 4 (generate-001) | Google | Proprietary | – | 490 | 539,657 | |
| 48 | Krea 2 Medium | Krea | Proprietary | – | 490 | 69,957 | |
| 49 | Qwen-Image (2512) | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | $0.03 | 484 | 98,272 | |
| 50 | Wan 2.5 Preview | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 473 | 290,257 | |
| 51 | Seedream 4.0 (fal) | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 473 | 11,841 | |
| 52 | GPT-Image-1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 471 | 268,430 | |
| 53 | Krea 2 Large | Krea | Proprietary | – | 471 | 68,477 | |
| 54 | Recraft V4 | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 471 | 149,367 | |
| 55 | HiDream-O1-Image | HiDream | MIT | – | 471 | 77,624 | |
| 56 | Krea 2 Turbo | Krea | krea-2-community-license | – | 469 | 63,944 | |
| 57 | Seedream 4.0 (High Res, fal) | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 468 | 182,635 | |
| 58 | GPT-Image-1 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.01 | 463 | 170,993 | |
| 59 | Flux Kontext Max | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.08 | 463 | – | |
| 60 | Wan 2.7 Image Pro | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 454 | 30,224 | |
| 61 | Wan 2.7 Image | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 450 | 30,628 | |
| 62 | Recraft V4.1 Flash | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 447 | 3,486 | |
| 63 | MAI-Image-1 | Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 439 | 98,374 | |
| 64 | Kling v3 Omni Image |   Kling | Proprietary | $0.03 | 426 | – | |
| 65 | Z-Image-Turbo | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | – | 425 | 24,963 | |
| 66 | Seedream 3.0 | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 423 | 36,895 | |
| 67 | Riverflow 2.0 Fast | Sourceful | Proprietary | $0.04 | 419 | – | |
| 68 | FLUX.1 Kontext [max] | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 415 | 65,501 | |
| 69 | Reve | Reve | Proprietary | $0.18 | 415 | – | |
| 70 | FLUX.2 [klein] 9B | Black Forest Labs | flux-non-commercial-license | – | 407 | 150,695 | |
| 71 | Qwen-Image (Prompt Extend) | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | $0.03 | 395 | 716,671 | |
| 72 | Hunyuan Image 3 | Tencent | Tencent Hunyuan Community License Agreement | $0.08 | 394 | – | |
| 73 | FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 392 | 332,362 | |
| 74 | Imagen 3 (generate-002) | Google | Proprietary | – | 390 | 359,756 | |
| 75 | Qwen-Image | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | $0.03 | 389 | 84,534 | |
| 76 | Ideogram 3.0 (Quality) | Ideogram | Proprietary | – | 378 | 118,553 | |
| 77 | Luma Photon | Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 361 | 130,177 | |
| 78 | P-Image | Unknown | Proprietary | – | 356 | 109,698 | |
| 79 | FLUX.2 [klein] 4B | Black Forest Labs | Apache 2.0 | – | 353 | 152,289 | |
| 80 | Runway Gen-4 | Runway | Proprietary | – | 345 | 54,330 | |
| 81 | Recraft V3 | Recraft | Proprietary | $0.04 | 342 | 195,600 | |
| 82 | FLUX1.1 [pro] | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 334 | 70,460 | |
| 83 | Ideogram 2.0 | Ideogram | Proprietary | – | 332 | 72,090 | |
| 84 | Lucid Origin | Leonardo.Ai | Proprietary | – | 331 | 287,340 | |
| 85 | GLM-Image |   Z.ai | MIT | – | 330 | 4,854 | |
| 86 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview Image Generation | Google | Proprietary | – | 285 | 257,213 | |
| 87 | FLUX.1 [dev] (FP8) | Black Forest Labs | Open | – | 278 | 49,221 | |
| 88 | DALL-E 3 | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 276 | 238,731 | |
| 89 | FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] | Black Forest Labs | flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license | – | 247 | 216,222 | |
| 90 | Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | Unknown | Open | – | 244 | 23,396 | |
| 91 | BAGEL | ByteDance | Apache 2.0 | – | 203 | 12,361 |