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
841 / 1,000 preference
- Best for editing gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI
Highest Preference score for image editing
746 / 1,000 preference
- Best value GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI
Lowest price per image in the top 20
$0.000 per image
Image model leaderboard
93 models · Preference score out of 1,000: 500 is a typical model, 1,000 one voters would always pick
20 of 93 models in the chart · ·
All models
| Compare | # | Model | Creator | Licence | Per image | Preference | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 841 | 17,752 | |
| 2 | gpt-image-2.5-flare | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 819 | 16,889 | |
| 3 | gpt-image-2 (medium) | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.05 | 806 | 93,334 | |
| 4 | grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) |   xAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 758 | 3,113 | |
| 5 | mai-image-2.6 |  Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 756 | 25,091 | |
| 6 | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 |  Google | Proprietary | – | 752 | 5,310 | |
| 7 | reve-2.1 |  Reve | Proprietary | – | 723 | 8,249 | |
| 8 | grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) | xAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 714 | 14,483 | |
| 9 | muse-image |  Meta | Proprietary | $0.01 | 690 | 42,262 | |
| 10 | reve-2.0 | Reve | Proprietary | – | 684 | 15,773 | |
| 11 | gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] | Google | Proprietary | – | 674 | 60,515 | |
| 12 | seedream-5.0-pro |  ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 667 | 94,181 | |
| 13 | qwen-image-3.0-pro |  Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 666 | 11,440 | |
| 14 | mai-image-2.5 | Microsoft | Proprietary | $0.05 | 665 | 61,265 | |
| 15 | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) | Google | Proprietary | – | 660 | 17,804 | |
| 16 | gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) | Google | Proprietary | – | 657 | 175,734 | |
| 17 | GPT Image 1.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.000 | 652 | – | |
| 18 | gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 643 | 169,927 | |
| 19 | gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) | Google | Proprietary | $0.13 | 638 | 86,464 | |
| 20 | qwen-image-2.1 | Alibaba | qwen-research | – | 624 | 11,441 | |
| 21 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image | Google | Proprietary | $0.02 | 605 | – | |
| 22 | Riverflow 2.0 Pro |  Sourceful | Proprietary | $0.15 | 604 | – | |
| 23 | ideogram-4.0-quality | Ideogram | Ideogram Open Model | – | 599 | 60,591 | |
| 24 | qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 581 | 13,096 | |
| 25 | uni-1.1-max |   Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 577 | 14,072 | |
| 26 | uni-1.1 | Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 570 | 46,699 | |
| 27 | mai-image-2 | Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 570 | 51,475 | |
| 28 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) | Google | Proprietary | $0.04 | 561 | – | |
| 29 | grok-imagine-image | xAI | Proprietary | $0.02 | 549 | 272,085 | |
| 30 | recraft-v4.1-utility-pro |   Recraft | Proprietary | – | 549 | 2,617 | |
| 31 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) |  NVIDIA | OpenMDW-1.1 | – | 543 | 10,805 | |
| 32 | grok-imagine-image-pro | xAI | Proprietary | – | 539 | 99,455 | |
| 33 | flux-2-max |   Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.06 | 539 | 123,203 | |
| 34 | flux-2-flex | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.05 | 531 | 156,923 | |
| 35 | reve-v1.5 | Reve | Proprietary | – | 529 | 39,700 | |
| 36 | flux-2-pro | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.02 | 526 | 212,359 | |
| 37 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image | NVIDIA | OpenMDW-1.1 | – | 524 | 18,485 | |
| 38 | gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) | Google | Proprietary | – | 522 | 890,539 | |
| 39 | hunyuan-image-3.0 |  Tencent | tencent-hunyuan-community | – | 521 | 180,518 | |
| 40 | seedream-4.5 | ByteDance | Proprietary | $0.04 | 519 | 300,107 | |
| 41 | imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 | Google | Proprietary | – | 518 | 388,736 | |
| 42 | flux-2-dev | Black Forest Labs | flux-non-commercial-license | $0.01 | 515 | 77,988 | |
| 43 | FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo | Black Forest Labs | FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial License | $0.008 | 514 | – | |
| 44 | Seedream 4 | ByteDance | Proprietary | $0.03 | 510 | – | |
| 45 | seedream-4-2k | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 507 | 12,562 | |
| 46 | seedream-5.0-lite | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 504 | 129,950 | |
| 47 | wan2.6-t2i | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 503 | 233,292 | |
| 48 | recraft-v4.1-pro | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 497 | 2,795 | |
| 49 | imagen-4.0-generate-001 | Google | Proprietary | – | 491 | 539,732 | |
| 50 | qwen-image-2512 | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | – | 486 | 98,288 | |
| 51 | krea-2-medium | Krea | Proprietary | – | 484 | 58,098 | |
| 52 | seedream-4-fal | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 473 | 11,841 | |
| 53 | hidream-o1-image | HiDream | MIT | – | 473 | 66,906 | |
| 54 | gpt-image-1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.04 | 472 | 268,453 | |
| 55 | wan2.5-t2i-preview | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 472 | 279,229 | |
| 56 | recraft-v4 | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 471 | 137,017 | |
| 57 | seedream-4-high-res-fal | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 469 | 182,685 | |
| 58 | krea-2-turbo | Krea | krea-2-community-license | – | 468 | 51,552 | |
| 59 | krea-2-large | Krea | Proprietary | – | 466 | 56,888 | |
| 60 | gpt-image-1-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | $0.01 | 464 | 171,058 | |
| 61 | Flux Kontext Max | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | $0.08 | 463 | – | |
| 62 | wan2.7-image-pro | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 455 | 30,226 | |
| 63 | wan2.7-image | Alibaba | Proprietary | – | 451 | 30,630 | |
| 64 | recraft-v4.1-flash | Recraft | Proprietary | – | 449 | 3,516 | |
| 65 | mai-image-1 | Microsoft | Proprietary | – | 439 | 98,410 | |
| 66 | z-image-turbo | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | – | 426 | 24,808 | |
| 67 | Kling v3 Omni Image |   Kling | Proprietary | $0.03 | 426 | – | |
| 68 | seedream-3 | ByteDance | Proprietary | – | 423 | 36,885 | |
| 69 | Riverflow 2.0 Fast | Sourceful | Proprietary | $0.04 | 419 | – | |
| 70 | Reve | Reve | Proprietary | $0.18 | 415 | – | |
| 71 | flux-1-kontext-max | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 413 | 65,510 | |
| 72 | flux-2-klein-9b | Black Forest Labs | flux-non-commercial-license | – | 408 | 150,782 | |
| 73 | Hunyuan Image 3 | Tencent | Tencent Hunyuan Community License Agreement | $0.08 | 394 | – | |
| 74 | qwen-image-prompt-extend | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | – | 394 | 716,773 | |
| 75 | flux-1-kontext-pro | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 392 | 332,367 | |
| 76 | imagen-3.0-generate-002 | Google | Proprietary | – | 391 | 359,772 | |
| 77 | qwen-image | Alibaba | Apache 2.0 | $0.03 | 389 | 84,550 | |
| 78 | ideogram-v3-quality | Ideogram | Proprietary | – | 378 | 118,538 | |
| 79 | photon | Luma AI | Proprietary | – | 361 | 130,160 | |
| 80 | p-image | Pruna | Proprietary | – | 357 | 109,762 | |
| 81 | flux-2-klein-4b | Black Forest Labs | Apache 2.0 | – | 353 | 152,389 | |
| 82 | runway-gen4 | Runway | Proprietary | – | 346 | 54,361 | |
| 83 | recraft-v3 | Recraft | Proprietary | $0.04 | 341 | 195,627 | |
| 84 | flux-1.1-pro | Black Forest Labs | Proprietary | – | 334 | 70,460 | |
| 85 | ideogram-v2 | Ideogram | Proprietary | – | 331 | 72,090 | |
| 86 | lucid-origin | Leonardo-ai | Proprietary | – | 331 | 287,341 | |
| 87 | glm-image |   Z.ai | MIT | – | 330 | 4,854 | |
| 88 | gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation | Google | Proprietary | – | 285 | 257,227 | |
| 89 | flux-1-dev-fp8 | Black Forest Labs | Open | – | 278 | 49,221 | |
| 90 | dall-e-3 | OpenAI | Proprietary | – | 276 | 238,743 | |
| 91 | flux-1-kontext-dev | Black Forest Labs | flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license | – | 246 | 216,225 | |
| 92 | stable-diffusion-v35-large | Stability AI | Open | – | 243 | 23,396 | |
| 93 | bagel | ByteDance | Apache 2.0 | – | 203 | 12,363 |