Model comparison

AI Image Generator: every model, compared

Generate images with every leading model — Flux, Imagen, Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Recraft, Ideogram, Qwen — from a single workspace. Pay-per-credit, no subscription.

42 models supported · pay-per-credit · credits never expire

How to choose a model

Every model below runs on the same pay-per-credit balance, so you can switch between them freely without separate subscriptions. Recommended models are shown first; expand any group to see every version. Search to jump straight to a model, or open one for full details, pricing, capabilities, and example outputs.

Google

Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Nano Banana 2

Google DeepMind's Gemini 3-powered flagship for text-to-image. Renders up to 4K with industry-leading prompt adherence, native multi-image references, and web search grounding for factual scenes. Ideal for product photography with brand consistency, character series across multi-shot campaigns, and complex compositional work that benefits from compositing several references at once.

product photography with brand consistencycharacter consistency across a multi-shot seriesmarketing creative driven by long structured promptsphotorealistic portraits at high resolutioncompositing elements from multiple reference images
11 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1255#5 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Nano Banana Pro

The premium tier of Google's Nano Banana lineup. Tuned for magazine-cover fidelity at 4K, with the strongest identity preservation in the family across faces, products, and brand elements. Best when the cost per image is justified by the output going into print, paid ads, or hero placements where every detail matters.

premium marketing campaignsmagazine-quality photographic compositionscomplex multi-element compositionsbrand-consistent character serieshigh-resolution print artwork
15 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1220#8 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Imagen 4 Ultra

Google's premium Imagen tier, built for magazine-cover-quality photorealism. Hand-tuned for fine-grained detail in faces, fabrics, and natural materials with faithful prompt adherence and improved typography. Sits at the top of the Google image lineup alongside Nano Banana Pro — pick this when you want documentary-style realism over Gemini's broader compositional flexibility.

premium ad and editorial photographymagazine-cover quality outputshighly detailed close-upsproduct hero shotsnatural-looking composite scenes
6 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1173#26 / 148View Imagen 4 Ultra details

ByteDance

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Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Seedream 4.5

ByteDance's flagship cinematic image model. Top-tier in the Seedream lineup for color, mood, and editorial stylization, with stronger spatial understanding than 4.0 — convincing depth, perspective, and prop placement. Pair with Seedream 5 Lite for high-volume iteration once you've nailed the look.

fashion editorialcinematic concept artstylized character portraitsmarketing creative with moodmusic video and album art aesthetics
4 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1167#28 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Seedream 5 Lite

A faster, lower-cost variant of the Seedream 4.5 aesthetic — same cinematic palette and mood handling at reduced fidelity. Built-in reasoning and example-based editing differentiate it from other budget tiers: pass an example image of the desired result and the model interprets the intent. Good for high-volume social content, moodboards, and exploration before committing to a hero shot.

fast iteration on stylized conceptsbudget-tier cinematic creativesocial-content batchesmoodboard generation
4 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1118#57 / 148
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OpenAI

Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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GPT Image 2 Medium

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 at the medium quality tier. Combines top-of-the-leaderboard prompt adherence on Artificial Analysis with the strongest typography rendering of any image model — exact text in quotes, complex layouts, and packaging mockups all just work. The default choice for production marketing creative when GPT Image 2 High's premium pricing isn't justified.

premium marketing creative with typographyproduct mockupsmagazine-style editorialcomplex multi-element compositionstext-heavy social posts
6 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1339#1 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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GPT Image 2 High

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 at maximum quality, currently ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image arena. Delivers magazine-cover fidelity with industry-best text rendering and complex prompt adherence — pick it for hero shots, premium ad creative, and editorial covers where the cost per image is worth the output.

magazine-cover quality outputshighest-fidelity product photographycomplex art-directed scenespremium ad creativeeditorial hero shots
15 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1339#1 / 148
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Black Forest Labs

Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Flux 2 Klein

The smaller, faster open-weight variant of Black Forest Labs' Flux 2 family. Self-hostable for teams that want the Flux 2 aesthetic on their own infrastructure, with strong quality-per-credit at a lower cost than Flux 2 Pro. Good for iteration and exploration before stepping up to Pro or Max for finals.

fast iteration on Flux 2 aestheticsopen-weight workflow integrationself-hosted explorationhigh-volume creative
2 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1122#54 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Flux 2 Pro

Black Forest Labs' Flux 2 production tier — the current Flux flagship for most use cases. Stylized photorealism with stronger prompt adherence than Flux 1.1 Pro, broad aesthetic range, and reference-image support. Sits below Flux 2 Max on top-end fidelity but offers a better cost-quality ratio for production work.

stylized photorealistic creative at production qualityconcept art for games and filmpremium marketing visualscharacter series with consistent stylediverse aesthetic work
5 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1188#18 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Flux 2 Max

The highest-fidelity tier in Black Forest Labs' Flux 2 family. Top-5 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image arena with magazine-grade detail in textures, fabrics, and natural materials. Reach for it on hero shots, magazine layouts, and premium ad creative where the cost per image is justified.

premium ad and editorial creativemagazine-cover quality outputsstylized photorealism at maximum fidelitycomplex compositions
10 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1193#15 / 148
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Alibaba

Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Z Image Turbo

A fast 6B-parameter text-to-image model from the Z-Image lineup with surprisingly strong photorealism for its size. Built for high-volume iteration where credit cost and speed matter — moodboards, social variants, exploration before stepping up to a flagship. Open-weight and competitive at this budget tier.

fast budget-tier generationhigh-volume creativeideation and moodboardslightweight stylized output
1 Credit
Artificial AnalysisElo 1107#65 / 148View Z Image Turbo details
Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Qwen Image 2

Alibaba's unified generation-and-editing model with native 2K resolution and improved fidelity over the original Qwen Image. Strong text rendering across multiple scripts and natural cinematic stylization make it a solid pick for fashion, editorial, and content targeting Asian markets — and it doubles as an editor in the same checkpoint.

Asian-cinema aestheticsfashion and editorial creativestylized character workanime-adjacent illustration
4 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1076#82 / 148
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Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Qwen Image 2 Pro

The premium tier of Alibaba's Qwen Image 2. Enhanced realism and text accuracy at native 2K with precise image-editing capability built in — competitive with Flux 2 Pro on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image arena. Best-in-class for stylized fashion photography with multilingual text demands.

premium Asian-aesthetic creativefashion editorial at high fidelitystylized character seriescinematic concept art
8 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1157#36 / 148
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Recraft

No examples yet for Recraft V4.1

Recraft V4.1

Recraft's newest design-focused generation, refining V4's design taste with better prompt accuracy, art-directed composition, and integrated text rendering — at the same cost as V4. The default Recraft pick for posters, packaging, and brand assets where typography and layout matter as much as the image.

typography-heavy designs (posters, packaging)logo and brand mark iterationart-directed marketing creativediverse stylized illustrations
4 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1147#42 / 148View Recraft V4.1 details
No examples yet for Recraft V4.1 SVG

Recraft V4.1 SVG

Recraft V4.1 in SVG output mode — production-ready vector images you can edit directly in Figma or Illustrator, now with V4.1's sharper design taste and text rendering. Still nearly unique in the AI image space; most models output rasters that don't trace cleanly.

vector logo iterationeditable brand assetsSVG icons and illustrationsscalable design elements
4 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1147#42 / 148View Recraft V4.1 SVG details

xAI

Model showcase

Prompt: A woman dancing in a garden full of animals. She is wearing a T-shirt with the word “Upsampler” on it.

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Grok Imagine Image

xAI's image generation and editing model with strong prompt adherence and a distinctive personality-driven aesthetic. Built for X-platform-aligned content, social-media-ready imagery, and irreverent creative work where polish matters less than tone. Strong cost-quality at this tier compared to the major US flagships.

stylized creative with personalitysocial-media-ready imageryhumorous or irreverent conceptsX-platform-aligned visuals
2 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1179#22 / 148
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Ideogram

No examples yet for Ideogram V4 Turbo

Ideogram V4 Turbo

The speed tier of Ideogram's v4 generation — same realism and typography focus as its Balanced and Quality siblings, tuned for fast, cheap iteration. The right entry point for exploring compositions and text layouts before re-rolling the winner on a higher tier.

rapid iteration on text-heavy layoutsexploring poster and packaging compositions cheaplyhigh-volume draft generation
3 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1169#27 / 148View Ideogram V4 Turbo details
No examples yet for Ideogram V4 Balanced

Ideogram V4 Balanced

The mid tier of Ideogram's v4 generation, balancing speed, quality, and cost. A clear step up from Ideogram 3.0 in realism and style consistency while keeping best-in-class text rendering — the default Ideogram pick for typography-prominent creative.

typography-heavy designs (posters, packaging)logos and brand markstext-prominent ad creativeconsistent style across a campaign series
6 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1169#27 / 148View Ideogram V4 Balanced details
No examples yet for Ideogram V4 Quality

Ideogram V4 Quality

The top tier of Ideogram's v4 generation — slowest but highest quality, with the most detail and polish the lineup offers. Pick it for final renders of typography-heavy creative where the text, layout, and realism all need to hold up at full resolution.

final renders of posters and packagingpremium brand creative with on-image texthigh-detail realistic scenes with typography
10 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1169#27 / 148View Ideogram V4 Quality details

Krea

No examples yet for Krea 2 Medium

Krea 2 Medium

Krea's foundation image model, tuned for expressive illustration, anime, and painterly styles — fast and consistent across artistic directions. One of the highest-rated image models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, and remarkably cheap for that tier.

expressive illustration and concept artanime and stylized character workpainterly and traditional-media looksconsistent art direction across a series
3 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1208#10 / 148View Krea 2 Medium details
No examples yet for Krea 2 Large

Krea 2 Large

Krea's flagship foundation model — larger and more flexible than Krea 2 Medium, with particular strength in photorealism alongside the same expressive artistic range. The pick when you want Krea's aesthetic sensibility on realistic scenes, portraits, and premium creative.

photorealistic scenes with artistic directionportraits and editorial imagerypremium creative spanning realism and stylization
6 Credits
Artificial AnalysisElo 1189#17 / 148View Krea 2 Large details