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The best AI for creating images

171 image generators ranked by the blind votes of thousands of people.

Our picks

Three ways to get it right: the best one regardless of price, the best value and the best one without paying.

The most powerful

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

OpenAI

Score 100/100

It's the one people like most in blind votes between images.

You'll find it inChatGPT (web and app)

Go: ≈ €7/mo$8/moIt also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.

Image creation in ChatGPT (the app picks the exact model).

Proven

The best value

Nano Banana 2.1

Google

Score 89/100

It scores 89 versus 100 for the most powerful one, and it costs about 6 times less to use.

You'll find it inGemini (web and app)

Google AI Plus: €4.99/mo≈ $5.59/moIt also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.

Image creation in Gemini (the app picks the exact model).

Just releasedNew

The best free one (open source)

Qwen-Image-2.1

Alibaba

Score 56/100

It's open source: you download it and use it without paying and without usage limits. It scores 56 versus 100 for the most powerful one.

You'll find it inDownload it (open source) · How to use it

Free (open source)

Needs a computer with about 10.0 GB of video memory (VRAM).

Open sourceNewWidely used

The top 10

One model per row (its best version). The variants (max, high, medium…) are in «For the data nerds», at the end.

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GPT Image 2.5 SunburstOpenAI · You'll find it in: ChatGPT (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 100/100Go: ≈ €7/mo$8/mo
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GPT Image 2.5 FlareOpenAI · You'll find it in: ChatGPT (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 98/100Go: ≈ €7/mo$8/mo
3
GPT Image 2OpenAI · You'll find it in: ChatGPT (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 93/100Go: ≈ €7/mo$8/mo
4
The best valueNano Banana 2.1Google · You'll find it in: Gemini (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 89/100Google AI Plus: €4.99/mo≈ $5.59/mo
5
Grok Imagine Image 2.0xAI · You'll find it in: Grok (web and app)
Score 88/100Price not confirmed
6
MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft · You'll find it in: API only (for developers)
Score 87/100Developers only
7
Nano Banana 2Google · You'll find it in: Gemini (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 80/100Google AI Plus: €4.99/mo≈ $5.59/mo
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Muse ImageMeta · You'll find it in: API only (for developers)
Score 77/100Developers only
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GPT Image 1.5OpenAI · You'll find it in: ChatGPT (web and app)It also has free use with limits in the app, in addition to the paid plans.
Score 74/100Go: ≈ €7/mo$8/mo
10
MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMicrosoft · You'll find it in: API only (for developers)
Score 74/100Developers only

Data zone

For the data nerds

Quality vs price chart, full table with filters and all the variants of each model (max, high, medium…). Click ▸ on a row to see sources, memory and notes.

Sources publish API prices in dollars. With the €/$ button at the top you choose the currency; in euros they are converted at €1 = $1.1206 (ECB reference rate of October 9, 2026).

Quality (Elo) vs price per image

Up = better · left = cheaper · the dashed line is the efficient frontier.

154 models · 8 on the frontier · hover over or tap a point to see its name and values

+22 more labsClosedOpen weightsEfficient frontier

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No USD price (not in the chart): Qwen-Image-2.1, HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct, Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic), Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4Step, HunyuanImage 3.0, FLUX.1 [pro], Midjourney v7 Alpha, Midjourney v6, MAI Image 1, Midjourney v6.1, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, Krea 1, Stable Diffusion 3 Large Turbo, Janus Pro.

Full table

171 models and variants · click ▸ on a row to see sources, memory and notes

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Model	EloAA ⇅	€USDper image ⇅	WeightsWeights⇅	MaturityMad.⇅	Paramstotal / act.	Memory ⇅VRAM · disco	License
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max) OpenAI	1198 #1	€0.19$0.21	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 31 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-09-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #1 · Elo 1198 (±9, 95% CI) · 14,432 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #1 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max) OpenAI	1191 #2	€0.19$0.21	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 31 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-09-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #2 · Elo 1191 (±9, 95% CI) · 13,808 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #2 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GPT Image 2 (high) OpenAI	1172 #3	€0.19$0.21	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-04-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #3 · Elo 1172 (±8, 95% CI) · 15,522 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #3 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Nano Banana 2.1 Google	1160 #4	€0.030$0.034	ClosedClosed	NewNew 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Featured: ★ Best value · on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Released 3 days ago · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-10-06; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #4 · Elo 1160 (±10, 95% CI) · 6055 votes Score: New (Oct 6). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 xAI	1156 #5	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 63 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-08-07; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #5 · Elo 1156 (±11, 95% CI) · 7352 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #5 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2.6 Microsoft	1151 #6	€0.035$0.039	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 60 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-08-10; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #6 · Elo 1151 (±10, 95% CI) · 9665 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #6 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Nano Banana 2 Google	1126 #7	€0.060$0.067	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-02 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-02-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #7 · Elo 1126 (±7, 95% CI) · 19,044 votes · name on AA: “Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)” Score: AA text-to-image arena: #7 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Muse Image Meta	1115 #8	€0.0089$0.010	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 94 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-07-07; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #8 · Elo 1115 (±9, 95% CI) · 8959 votes Score: The cheapest in the top 10. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GPT Image 1.5 (high) OpenAI	1107 #9	€0.12$0.13	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-12-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #9 · Elo 1107 · 15,144 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #9 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash Microsoft	1105 #10	€0.017$0.019	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 35 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-09-04; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #10 · Elo 1105 (±9, 95% CI) · 6135 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #10 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2.5 Microsoft	1104 #11	€0.043$0.048	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-06 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-06-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #11 · Elo 1104 (±8, 95% CI) · 15,366 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #11 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Nano Banana Pro Google	1102 #12	€0.12$0.13	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-11-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #12 · Elo 1102 (±8, 95% CI) · 17,591 votes · name on AA: “Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)” Score: AA text-to-image arena: #12 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro Microsoft	1100 #13	€0.097$0.11	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 78 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-23; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #13 · Elo 1100 (±7, 95% CI) · 15,111 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #13 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Nano Banana 2 Lite Google	1095 #14	€0.030$0.034	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 101 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-06-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #14 · Elo 1095 (±8, 95% CI) · 17,590 votes · name on AA: “Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)” Score: AA text-to-image arena: #14 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba	1088 #15	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 80 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-07-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #15 · Elo 1088 (±9, 95% CI) · 6598 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #15 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance	1080 #16	€0.080$0.090	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · 93 days · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-07-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #16 · Elo 1080 (±8, 95% CI) · 13,184 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #16 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen-Image-3.0 Alibaba	1075 #17	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 80 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #17 · Elo 1075 (±9, 95% CI) · 6281 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #17 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
grok-imagine-image-quality xAI	1046 #18	€0.045$0.050	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-06; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #18 · Elo 1046 (±7, 95% CI) · 19,506 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #18 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba	1035 #19	self-host	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 117k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	7.1B (transformer)	10.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 33.1 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	Qwen Research (non-commercial)
Featured: ★ Best open Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Released 19 days ago · 117k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 117k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-09-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #19 · Elo 1035 (±9, 95% CI) · 5489 votes Score: Best open weights. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 33.1 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 10.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 (7.1B) 14.2 GB Transformer FP8 7.1 GB Transformer GGUF Q4_K_M 4.2 GB Encoder Qwen3-VL 8B BF16 17.5 GB Encoder FP8 9.4 GB Encoder W4A8 6.3 GB Requirement: Model card: no VRAM figure; recommends enable_model_cpu_offload() to save memory. source Full repo 33.1 GB (encoder 17.5 + transformer 14.2 + VAE 1.4). Research/evaluation-only license: commercial use requires a separate license. License: Qwen Research (non-commercial) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash Microsoft	1032 #20	€0.018$0.020	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-06-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #20 · Elo 1032 (±9, 95% CI) · 6210 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #20 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22) Alibaba	1032 #21	€0.067$0.075	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #21 · Elo 1032 (±9, 95% CI) · 6469 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #21 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	1030 #22	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-09-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #22 · Elo 1030 (±9, 95% CI) · 5728 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #22 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs	1027 #23	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-11-25; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #23 · Elo 1027 · 6355 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #23 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Krea 2 Large Krea	1026 #24	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #24 · Elo 1026 (±7, 95% CI) · 17,151 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #24 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Wan 2.6 Image Alibaba	1026 #25	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-17; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #25 · Elo 1026 (±9, 95% CI) · 5464 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #25 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Krea 2 Medium Turbo Krea	1022 #26	€0.013$0.015	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-06-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #26 · Elo 1022 (±9, 95% CI) · 6383 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #26 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	1022 #27	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-12-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #27 · Elo 1022 (±9, 95% CI) · 6761 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #27 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4.1 Utility Recraft	1022 #28	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-14; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #28 · Elo 1022 (±8, 95% CI) · 7953 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #28 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	1020 #29	€0.062$0.070	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #29 · Elo 1020 (±8, 95% CI) · 12,510 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #29 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5 HiDream	1020 #30	€0.071$0.080	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-06-04; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #30 · Elo 1020 (±8, 95% CI) · 13,524 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #30 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
grok-imagine-image xAI	1019 #31	€0.018$0.020	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-01-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #31 · Elo 1019 (±8, 95% CI) · 6684 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #31 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro Recraft	1018 #32	€0.19$0.21	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-14; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #32 · Elo 1018 (±7, 95% CI) · 17,932 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #32 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.5 (High) Ideogram	1016 #34	€0.089$0.10	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Released 9 days ago · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-09-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #34 · Elo 1016 (±11, 95% CI) · 2433 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #34 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Wan2.6 Text to Image Alibaba	1016 #33	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-19; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #33 · Elo 1016 (±9, 95% CI) · 5712 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #33 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Luma UNI 1 Max Luma Labs	1015 #35	€0.089$0.10	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #35 · Elo 1015 (±9, 95% CI) · 5784 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #35 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Krea 2 Medium Krea	1013 #36	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #36 · Elo 1013 (±7, 95% CI) · 16,952 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #36 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	1012 #37	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-02 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-02-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #37 · Elo 1012 (±9, 95% CI) · 5755 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #37 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality) Ideogram	1012 #38	€0.089$0.10	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 53k/mo HF · 2 rankingsModerately usedModerately used	9.3B (transformer)	12.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 27.4 GB 1× 16 GB (approx.)	Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 53k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-06 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 53k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-06-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #38 · Elo 1012 (±7, 95% CI) · 12,370 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #38 of 168. Memory: disk 27.4 GB (FP8) · Min. VRAM 12.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 16 GB (approx.) Transformer FP8 9.3 GB Transformer incondicional FP8 9.3 GB Encoder FP8 8.8 GB Transformer NF4 5.2 GB Encoder NF4 5.5 GB Weights published in FP8 and NF4 (ideogram-ai/ideogram-4 collection); gated repo. Disk = FP8 transformer + FP8 unconditional transformer + FP8 encoder. No official VRAM figure: estimate = FP8 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GPT Image 1 (high) OpenAI	1010 #39	€0.15$0.17	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-04 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-04-23; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #39 · Elo 1010 · 5515 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #39 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2 Microsoft	1009 #40	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-03 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-03-19; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #40 · Elo 1009 (±9, 95% CI) · 2553 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #40 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	1004 #42	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-11-25; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #42 · Elo 1004 (±8, 95% CI) · 12,135 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #42 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.0 Ideogram	1004 #41	€0.054$0.060	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 53k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	9.3B (transformer)	12.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 27.4 GB 1× 16 GB (approx.)	Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 53k HF downloads/mo · from 2026-06 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 53k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-06-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #41 · Elo 1004 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,308 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #41 of 168. Memory: disk 27.4 GB (FP8) · Min. VRAM 12.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 16 GB (approx.) Transformer FP8 9.3 GB Transformer incondicional FP8 9.3 GB Encoder FP8 8.8 GB Transformer NF4 5.2 GB Encoder NF4 5.5 GB Weights published in FP8 and NF4 (ideogram-ai/ideogram-4 collection); gated repo. Disk = FP8 transformer + FP8 unconditional transformer + FP8 encoder. No official VRAM figure: estimate = FP8 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	1000 #43	€0.011$0.012	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 408k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	32.2B (transformer)	73.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 113 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	FLUX Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 408k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 408k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-11-25; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #43 · Elo 1000 · 20,731 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #43 of 168. Memory: disk 113 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 73.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 64.5 GB Encoder Mistral Small 3.1 24B 48.0 GB VAE 0.3 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + Mistral Small 3.1 24B encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen Image Max 2512 Alibaba	999 #44	€0.018$0.020	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 45k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	20.4B (transformer)	47.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 57.7 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 45k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 45k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #44 · Elo 999 (±10, 95% CI) · 2186 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #44 of 168. Memory: disk 57.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 47.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 40.9 GB Encoder Qwen2.5-VL 7B 16.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB AA links to the Qwen-Image-2512 Space; weights at Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512. Disk = BF16 transformer + Qwen2.5-VL 7B encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Imagen 4 Ultra Google	998 #45	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #45 · Elo 998 (±10, 95% CI) · 2612 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #45 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image-Ideogram (High) Pruna AI	998 #46	€0.013$0.015	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 71 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #46 · Elo 998 (±10, 95% CI) · 3370 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #46 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo Fal	998 #47	€0.0071$0.008	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 13k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	32.2B (FLUX.2 [dev]) + LoRA	73.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 116 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 13k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 13k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #47 · Elo 998 (±8, 95% CI) · 6703 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #47 of 168. Memory: disk 116 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 73.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 64.5 GB LoRA Turbo (fal) 2.8 GB Encoder 48.0 GB VAE 0.3 GB It's a 2.8 GB LoRA on FLUX.2 [dev]: it needs the FLUX.2 [dev] weights. Disk = FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 transformer + Turbo LoRA (fal) + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ming-Image-0.1-Design InclusionAI	998 #48	€0.027$0.030	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	6B (according to the model card; 6.2B transformer on HF)	80.0 GB official ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 52.7 GB 1× 80 GB (validated configuration)	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 0 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 17 days · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-09-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #48 · Elo 998 (±7, 95% CI) · 21,708 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #48 of 168. Memory: disk 52.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 80.0 GB official · fits on: 1× 80 GB (validated configuration) Transformer BF16 12.3 GB MLLM 34.0 GB Connector 6.2 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «one CUDA GPU with 80 GiB VRAM (validated configuration)». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + MLLM + Connector + VAE. License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct Tencent	996 #49	self-host	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 19k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	80B / 13B	240 GB official ▣ 2–4 GPU disk 169 GB ≥ 3× 80 GB	Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 19k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 19k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #49 · Elo 996 (±9, 95% CI) · 5602 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #49 of 168. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 169 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 240 GB official · fits on: ≥ 3× 80 GB BF16 model 169 GB Requirement: Model card: Recommended VRAM ≥ 3 × 80 GB; 80B total (13B active). source Disk = BF16 model. License: Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic) NVIDIA	994 #50	self-host	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 2 rankingsModerately usedModerately used	64B	143 GB approx. ▣ 1 node 8 GPU disk 132 GB 8× H100 (recommended setup)	OpenMDW 1.1
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Limited use · 5k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-31; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #50 · Elo 994 (±8, 95% CI) · 12,514 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #50 of 168. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 132 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 143 GB approx. · fits on: 8× H100 (recommended setup) Transformer BF16 128 GB VAE 1.4 GB Vision encoder 1.2 GB Sound tokenizer 1.9 GB Requirement: Model card: recommended vLLM-Omni setup on an 8×H100 node (with --enable-layerwise-offload it fits in less memory, slower). source Disk = BF16 transformer + VAE + vision encoder + sound tokenizer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: OpenMDW 1.1 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Luma UNI 1 Luma Labs	992 #51	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #51 · Elo 992 (±9, 95% CI) · 5750 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #51 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI-Image-2-Efficient Microsoft	990 #52	€0.020$0.022	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-14; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #52 · Elo 990 (±10, 95% CI) · 1982 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #52 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Wan 2.7 Alibaba	990 #53	€0.023$0.026	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 5 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 5 leaderboards · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (5 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, AA T2V v2.0, LMArena T2V, LMArena I2V, AA I2V v1.0; released: 2026-04-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #53 · Elo 990 (±9, 95% CI) · 5603 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #53 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4.1 Recraft	989 #54	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-14; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #54 · Elo 989 (±9, 95% CI) · 6440 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #54 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [dev] Flash Fal	987 #55	€0.0045$0.005	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 13k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	32.2B (FLUX.2 [dev]) + LoRA	73.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 116 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 13k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 13k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #55 · Elo 987 (±9, 95% CI) · 5508 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #55 of 168. Memory: disk 116 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 73.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 64.5 GB LoRA Turbo (fal) 2.8 GB Encoder 48.0 GB VAE 0.3 GB It's a 2.8 GB LoRA on FLUX.2 [dev]: it needs the FLUX.2 [dev] weights. Disk = FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 transformer + Turbo LoRA (fal) + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = FLUX.2 [dev] BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality) Fal	986 #56	€0.016$0.018	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	9.3B (transformer)	22.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 18.6 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 0 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 88 days · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #56 · Elo 986 (±9, 95% CI) · 6360 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #56 of 168. Memory: disk 18.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 22.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 18.6 GB Encoder FP8 (Ideogram 4) 8.8 GB fal repo with the distilled transformer; the encoder comes from the Ideogram 4 repo. Gated. Disk = BF16 transformer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image NVIDIA	986 #57	€0.036$0.040	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 2 rankingsModerately usedModerately used	64B	143 GB approx. ▣ 1 node 8 GPU disk 132 GB 8× H100 (recommended setup)	OpenMDW 1.1
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 5k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-31; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #57 · Elo 986 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,905 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #57 of 168. Memory: disk 132 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 143 GB approx. · fits on: 8× H100 (recommended setup) Transformer BF16 128 GB VAE 1.4 GB Vision encoder 1.2 GB Sound tokenizer 1.9 GB Requirement: Model card: recommended vLLM-Omni setup on an 8×H100 node (with --enable-layerwise-offload it fits in less memory, slower). source Disk = BF16 transformer + VAE + vision encoder + sound tokenizer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: OpenMDW 1.1 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4 Pro Recraft	986 #58	€0.22$0.25	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-02-17; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #58 · Elo 986 (±9, 95% CI) · 5823 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #58 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4.1 Pro Recraft	985 #59	€0.19$0.21	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-14; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #59 · Elo 985 (±9, 95% CI) · 6363 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #59 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image-Ideogram (Very High) Pruna AI	985 #60	€0.029$0.033	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 71 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #60 · Elo 985 (±11, 95% CI) · 2445 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #60 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Google	985 #61	€0.035$0.039	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-08-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #61 · Elo 985 (±9, 95% CI) · 5372 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #61 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Wan 2.7 Pro Alibaba	985 #62	€0.067$0.075	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #62 · Elo 985 (±9, 95% CI) · 5585 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #62 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4 Recraft	984 #63	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-02 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-02-17; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #63 · Elo 984 (±9, 95% CI) · 5667 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #63 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent Cloud) Tencent	983 #64	€0.029$0.032	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-09-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #64 · Elo 983 (±11, 95% CI) · 2148 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #64 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.0 Instant Fal	983 #65	€0.0067$0.0075	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	9.3B (transformer)	22.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 18.6 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 0 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 88 days · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #65 · Elo 983 (±9, 95% CI) · 5559 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #65 of 168. Memory: disk 18.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 22.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 18.6 GB Encoder FP8 (Ideogram 4) 8.8 GB fal repo with the distilled transformer; the encoder comes from the Ideogram 4 repo. Gated. Disk = BF16 transformer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HiDream-O1-Image HiDream	981 #66	€0.036$0.040	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 4.6k/mo HF · 2 rankingsModerately usedModerately used	8B	41.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 35.2 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 5k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 4.6k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-05-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #66 · Elo 981 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,751 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #66 of 168. Memory: disk 35.2 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 41.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) F32 model 35.2 GB Weights in F32 (35 GB); in BF16 they'd be half. Disk = F32 model. No official VRAM figure: estimate = F32 model × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HunyuanImage 3.5 (Preview) Tencent	975 #67	€0.021$0.024	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Released 17 days ago · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-09-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #67 · Elo 975 (±9, 95% CI) · 5498 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #67 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image-Ideogram (Medium) Pruna AI	974 #68	€0.0089$0.010	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 71 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #68 · Elo 974 (±10, 95% CI) · 3670 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #68 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4Step NVIDIA	971 #69	self-host	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	64B	143 GB approx. ▣ 1 node 8 GPU disk 132 GB 8× H100 (recommended setup)	OpenMDW 1.1
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 5k HF downloads/mo · 81 days · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 4.9k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #69 · Elo 971 (±8, 95% CI) · 10,306 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #69 of 168. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 132 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 143 GB approx. · fits on: 8× H100 (recommended setup) Transformer BF16 128 GB VAE 1.4 GB Vision encoder 1.2 GB Sound tokenizer 1.9 GB Requirement: Model card: recommended vLLM-Omni setup on an 8×H100 node (with --enable-layerwise-offload it fits in less memory, slower). source Disk = BF16 transformer + VAE + vision encoder + sound tokenizer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: OpenMDW 1.1 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
ImagineArt 2.0 ImagineArt	971 #70	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #70 · Elo 971 (±9, 95% CI) · 5536 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #70 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 4.0 Fast Fal	969 #71	€0.0094$0.011	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	9.3B (transformer)	22.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 18.6 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 0 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 88 days · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 0/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #71 · Elo 969 (±9, 95% CI) · 5490 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #71 of 168. Memory: disk 18.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 22.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 18.6 GB Encoder FP8 (Ideogram 4) 8.8 GB fal repo with the distilled transformer; the encoder comes from the Ideogram 4 repo. Gated. Disk = BF16 transformer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image-Ideogram (Low) Pruna AI	967 #72	€0.0067$0.0075	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 71 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #72 · Elo 967 (±10, 95% CI) · 3669 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #72 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03) Alibaba	963 #73	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-03 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-03-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #73 · Elo 963 (±8, 95% CI) · 4251 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #73 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Wan 2.5 Preview Alibaba	962 #74	€0.019$0.021	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-09-23; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #74 · Elo 962 (±9, 95% CI) · 2938 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #74 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Seedream 3.0 ByteDance	959 #75	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-04-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #75 · Elo 959 (±9, 95% CI) · 3739 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #75 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V4.1 Flash Recraft	957 #76	€0.0062$0.007	ClosedClosed	NewNew 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Released 16 days ago · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-09-23; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #76 · Elo 957 (±9, 95% CI) · 5706 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #76 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
ImagineArt 1.5 Preview ImagineArt	956 #77	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-11-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #77 · Elo 956 (±7, 95% CI) · 9596 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #77 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Vivago 2.1 HiDream	945 #78	€0.031$0.035	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-10 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-10-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #78 · Elo 945 (±9, 95% CI) · 3179 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #78 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HunyuanImage 3.0 Tencent	945 #79	self-host	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 3.4k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	80B / 13B	240 GB official ▣ 2–4 GPU disk 169 GB ≥ 3× 80 GB	Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Limited use · 3k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 3.4k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-09-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #79 · Elo 945 (±11, 95% CI) · 2159 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #79 of 168. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 169 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 240 GB official · fits on: ≥ 3× 80 GB BF16 model 169 GB Requirement: Model card (HunyuanImage-3.0-Instruct table): Recommended VRAM ≥ 3 × 80 GB; 80B total (13B active). source Disk = BF16 model. License: Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Kolors 2.1 KlingAI	944 #80	€0.012$0.014	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-07 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-07-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #80 · Elo 944 (±9, 95% CI) · 2732 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #80 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
image-1 Api Airforce	941 #81	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #81 · Elo 941 (±9, 95% CI) · 2146 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #81 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Black Forest Labs	941 #82	€0.013$0.015	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 194k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	9.1B (transformer)	22.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 34.7 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	FLUX Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 194k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 194k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #82 · Elo 941 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,820 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #82 of 168. Memory: disk 34.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 22.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 18.2 GB Encoder 16.4 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	941 #83	€0.0045$0.005	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 623k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	6.2B (transformer)	16.0 GB official ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 32.8 GB 1× 16 GB (consumer)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 623k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 623k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-12-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #83 · Elo 941 (±8, 95% CI) · 8880 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #83 of 168. Memory: disk 32.8 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 16.0 GB official · fits on: 1× 16 GB (consumer) Transformer F32 24.6 GB Encoder Qwen3 4B 8.0 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «fits comfortably within 16G VRAM consumer devices». source Disco = Transformer F32 + Encoder Qwen3 4B + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen Image Plus 2601 Alibaba	938 #84	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #84 · Elo 938 (±7, 95% CI) · 5077 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #84 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 Kontext [max] Black Forest Labs	932 #85	€0.071$0.080	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-05-29; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #85 · Elo 932 (±9, 95% CI) · 5367 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #85 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Eigen Image Eigen AI	924 #86	€0.022$0.025	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #86 · Elo 924 (±9, 95% CI) · 3364 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #86 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
ERNIE Image Turbo Baidu	924 #87	€0.0094$0.011	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 3.6k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	8B (transformer)	24.0 GB official ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 31.6 GB 1× 24 GB (consumer)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 4k HF downloads/mo · from 2026-04 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 3.6k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #87 · Elo 924 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,916 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #87 of 168. Memory: disk 31.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 24.0 GB official · fits on: 1× 24 GB (consumer) Transformer BF16 16.1 GB Encoder 7.7 GB Prompt enhancer 7.7 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «can run on consumer GPUs with 24G VRAM». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + Encoder + Prompt enhancer + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Vivago 2.0 HiDream	924 #88	€0.016$0.018	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-10; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #88 · Elo 924 (±9, 95% CI) · 2550 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #88 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Vidu Q2 Vidu	920 #89	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-11-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #89 · Elo 920 (±7, 95% CI) · 6587 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #89 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GPT Image 1 Mini (medium) OpenAI	918 #90	€0.0098$0.011	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-10 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-10-06; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #90 · Elo 918 · 5068 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #90 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Imagen 3 (v002) Google	916 #91	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-12-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #91 · Elo 916 (±9, 95% CI) · 4033 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #91 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Kling Image 3.0 Omni KlingAI	916 #92	€0.025$0.028	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-02-04; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #92 · Elo 916 (±7, 95% CI) · 4449 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #92 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image-Ideogram (Very Low) Pruna AI	914 #93	€0.0027$0.003	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 71 days · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #93 · Elo 914 (±10, 95% CI) · 3198 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #93 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Dreamina 3.1 ByteDance	913 #94	€0.027$0.030	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-08-01; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #94 · Elo 913 (±7, 95% CI) · 5453 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #94 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Lucid Origin Ultra Leonardo.Ai	913 #95	€0.077$0.087	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-08-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #95 · Elo 913 (±7, 95% CI) · 5615 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #95 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Reve Image (Halfmoon) Reve	912 #96	€0.021$0.024	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-03 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-03-24; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #96 · Elo 912 (±9, 95% CI) · 2195 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #96 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
ERNIE Image Baidu	912 #97	€0.028$0.032	OpenOpen	NewNew ⬇ 1.2k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	8B (transformer)	24.0 GB official ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 31.6 GB 1× 24 GB (consumer)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · 1k HF downloads/mo · from 2026-04 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 1.2k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-04-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #97 · Elo 912 (±8, 95% CI) · 12,180 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #97 of 168. Memory: disk 31.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 24.0 GB official · fits on: 1× 24 GB (consumer) Transformer BF16 16.1 GB Encoder 7.7 GB Prompt enhancer 7.7 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «can run on consumer GPUs with 24G VRAM». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + Encoder + Prompt enhancer + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Imagen 4 Standard Google	910 #98	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #98 · Elo 910 (±10, 95% CI) · 2067 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #98 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] Black Forest Labs	909 #99	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-05-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #99 · Elo 909 (±7, 95% CI) · 4444 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #99 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9B Black Forest Labs	903 #100	€0.0098$0.011	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 93k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	9.1B (transformer)	22.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 34.7 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	FLUX Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 93k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 93k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #100 · Elo 903 (±9, 95% CI) · 2766 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #100 of 168. Memory: disk 34.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 22.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 18.2 GB Encoder 16.4 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Lucid Origin Fast Leonardo.Ai	901 #101	€0.016$0.018	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-08-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #101 · Elo 901 (±7, 95% CI) · 5313 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #101 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram	897 #102	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-03 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-03-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #102 · Elo 897 (±7, 95% CI) · 3989 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #102 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra Black Forest Labs	895 #103	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-11-06; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #103 · Elo 895 (±7, 95% CI) · 4351 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #103 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX1.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs	891 #104	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2024-10 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2024-10-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #104 · Elo 891 (±7, 95% CI) · 7438 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #104 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs	891 #105	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-08-01; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #105 · Elo 891 (±8, 95% CI) · 7889 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #105 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
GLM-Image Zhipu (Z.ai)	891 #106	€0.045$0.050	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 4.7k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	6.9B (transformer) + vision-language encoder	23.0 GB official (approx.) ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 35.8 GB ~23 GB with CPU offload	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 5k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 4.7k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2026-01-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #106 · Elo 891 (±7, 95% CI) · 5345 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #106 of 168. Memory: disk 35.8 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 23.0 GB official (approx.) · fits on: ~23 GB with CPU offload Transformer BF16 13.8 GB Vision-language encoder 20.2 GB Text encoder 0.9 GB VAE 0.8 GB Requirement: Model card: with enable_model_cpu_offload=True it runs with ~23GB of GPU memory (slower). source Disk = BF16 transformer + vision-language encoder + text encoder + VAE. License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen Image Alibaba	890 #107	€0.018$0.020	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 266k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	20.4B (transformer)	47.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 57.7 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 266k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-08 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 266k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-08-04; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #107 · Elo 890 (±7, 95% CI) · 5085 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #107 of 168. Memory: disk 57.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 47.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 40.9 GB Encoder Qwen2.5-VL 7B 16.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB Disk = BF16 transformer + Qwen2.5-VL 7B encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HunyuanImage 2.1 Tencent	887 #108	€0.089$0.10	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 170/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	17B (DiT)	24.0 GB official (with offload) ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 64.9 GB 24 GB (2K, FP8 + CPU offload)	Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 170 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 170/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-09-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #108 · Elo 887 (±9, 95% CI) · 3579 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #108 of 168. Memory: disk 64.9 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 24.0 GB official (with offload) · fits on: 24 GB (2K, FP8 + CPU offload) DiT BF16 34.9 GB DiT FP8 17.9 GB DiT destilado BF16 34.9 GB Refiner BF16 30.1 GB Reprompt 15.0 GB Requirement: Model card: minimum 24 GB of GPU memory for 2048×2048, measured with CPU offload and FP8. source Repo with several DiT variants (151 GB in total); disk = DiT + BF16 refiner. Encoders separate. Disk = BF16 DiT + BF16 refiner. License: Tencent Hunyuan Community (excludes EU, UK and South Korea) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
P-Image Pruna AI	885 #109	€0.0045$0.005	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-12-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #109 · Elo 885 (±7, 95% CI) · 4396 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #109 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Luma Photon Luma Labs	885 #110	€0.017$0.019	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-12-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #110 · Elo 885 (±7, 95% CI) · 6003 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #110 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Imagen 4 Fast Google	884 #111	€0.018$0.020	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #111 · Elo 884 (±10, 95% CI) · 1933 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #111 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram v2 Ideogram	883 #112	€0.071$0.080	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2024-08-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #112 · Elo 883 (±8, 95% CI) · 7815 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #112 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FIBO Bria	881 #113	€0.036$0.040	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 562/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	8.3B (transformer)	20.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 25.5 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Bria FIBO (non-commercial)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 562 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-10 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 562/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-10-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #113 · Elo 881 (±7, 95% CI) · 4804 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #113 of 168. Memory: disk 25.5 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 20.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 16.6 GB Encoder 6.2 GB VAE 2.8 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Bria FIBO (non-commercial) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Midjourney v7 Alpha Midjourney	879 #114	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-04 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-04-03; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #114 · Elo 879 (±10, 95% CI) · 1868 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #114 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Z-Image Base Alibaba	878 #115	€0.0089$0.010	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 54k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	6.2B (transformer)	16.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 20.5 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 54k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 54k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #115 · Elo 878 (±7, 95% CI) · 5130 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #115 of 168. Memory: disk 20.5 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 16.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 12.3 GB Encoder Qwen3 4B 8.0 GB VAE 0.2 GB AA doesn't mark it as open, but the weights are on HF (Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image, Apache 2.0). Disk = BF16 transformer + Qwen3 4B encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev HiDream	875 #116	€0.0045$0.005	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 657/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	8B	41.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 35.2 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 657 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 657/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-08; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #116 · Elo 875 (±8, 95% CI) · 4080 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #116 of 168. Memory: disk 35.2 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 41.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) F32 model 35.2 GB Disk = F32 model. No official VRAM figure: estimate = F32 model × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Midjourney v6 Midjourney	875 #117	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2023-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2023-12-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #117 · Elo 875 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,523 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #117 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Infinity 8B ByteDance	875 #118	€0.0015$0.0017	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 103/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	8B	39.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 34.7 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	MIT
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 103 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-02 · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 103/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-02-18; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #118 · Elo 875 (±9, 95% CI) · 2406 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #118 of 168. Memory: disk 34.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 39.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) Infinity 8B (1024px) 33.5 GB VAE d56 1.2 GB The repo also includes 2B, 125M and a 512px version (148 GB in total). Disk = Infinity 8B (1024px) + VAE d56. No official VRAM figure: estimate = Infinity 8B (1024px) × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HiDream-I1-Dev HiDream	874 #119	€0.021$0.024	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 292/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	17.1B (transformer)	40.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 47.2 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 292 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-04 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 292/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-04-07; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #119 · Elo 874 (±10, 95% CI) · 1914 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #119 of 168. Memory: disk 47.2 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 40.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) Transformer 34.2 GB Encoder T5-XXL 9.5 GB Encoders CLIP 12.8 GB VAE 0.2 GB Also needs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct as the encoder (separate repo). Disk = Transformer + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = Transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram v2 Turbo Ideogram	871 #120	€0.045$0.050	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-08-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #120 · Elo 871 (±8, 95% CI) · 6725 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #120 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
HiDream-I1-Fast HiDream	870 #121	€0.011$0.012	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 54k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	17.1B (transformer)	40.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 47.2 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	MIT
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 54k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-04 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 54k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-04-07; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #121 · Elo 870 (±9, 95% CI) · 2430 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #121 of 168. Memory: disk 47.2 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 40.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) Transformer 34.2 GB Encoder T5-XXL 9.5 GB Encoders CLIP 12.8 GB VAE 0.2 GB Also needs Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct as the encoder (separate repo). Disk = Transformer + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = Transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft V3 Recraft	869 #122	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2024-10 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2024-10-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #122 · Elo 869 (±7, 95% CI) · 7458 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #122 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
MAI Image 1 Microsoft	865 #123	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-11-04; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #123 · Elo 865 (±9, 95% CI) · 3983 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #123 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
SRPO Tencent	864 #124	€0.023$0.026	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 538/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	11.9B (transformer, fine-tune of FLUX.1 [dev])	54.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 80 GB disk 47.6 GB 1× 80 GB (approx.)	Tencent Hunyuan Community (according to HF; territory not verified)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 538 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-09 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 538/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-09-11; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #124 · Elo 864 (±7, 95% CI) · 5057 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #124 of 168. Memory: disk 47.6 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 54.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 80 GB (approx.) Transformer F32 47.6 GB Transformer only (F32); uses the encoders and VAE of FLUX.1 [dev]. Disk = F32 transformer. No official VRAM figure: estimate = F32 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Tencent Hunyuan Community (according to HF; territory not verified) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Black Forest Labs	863 #125	€0.012$0.014	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 404k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	3.9B (transformer)	13.0 GB official (approx.) ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 16.0 GB ~13 GB (RTX 3090/4070 or better)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 404k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 404k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #125 · Elo 863 (±9, 95% CI) · 6884 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #125 of 168. Memory: disk 16.0 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 13.0 GB official (approx.) · fits on: ~13 GB (RTX 3090/4070 or better) Transformer BF16 7.8 GB Encoder 8.0 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «fits in ~13GB VRAM and is accessible on NVIDIA RTX 3090/4070 and above». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + Encoder + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Image-01 MiniMax	862 #126	€0.0089$0.010	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-02-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #126 · Elo 862 (±9, 95% CI) · 2178 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #126 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
LongCat Image Meituan	861 #127	€0.12$0.13	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 14k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	6B	17.0 GB official (approx.) ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 29.3 GB ~17 GB with CPU offload	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 14k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-12 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 14k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-12-05; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #127 · Elo 861 (±8, 95% CI) · 3847 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #127 of 168. Memory: disk 29.3 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 17.0 GB official (approx.) · fits on: ~17 GB with CPU offload Transformer BF16 12.5 GB Encoder 16.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: enable_model_cpu_offload() «Required ~17 GB». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + Encoder + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Midjourney v6.1 Midjourney	848 #128	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-07 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-07-30; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #128 · Elo 848 (±8, 95% CI) · 7708 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #128 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs	845 #129	€0.022$0.025	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 41k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	11.9B (transformer)	28.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU disk 33.7 GB 1× 32 GB (approx.)	FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 41k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-07 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 41k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-07-31; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #129 · Elo 845 (±9, 95% CI) · 3489 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #129 of 168. Memory: disk 33.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 28.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 32 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 23.8 GB Encoder T5-XXL 9.5 GB Encoder CLIP 0.2 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + T5-XXL encoder + CLIP encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram v1 Ideogram	845 #130	€0.054$0.060	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-02-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #130 · Elo 845 (±8, 95% CI) · 6075 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #130 of 168. Previous version. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Phoenix 1.0 Ultra Leonardo.Ai	843 #131	€0.068$0.076	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-12-18; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #131 · Elo 843 (±9, 95% CI) · 2959 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #131 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 [dev] Black Forest Labs	840 #132	€0.022$0.025	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 692k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	11.9B (transformer)	28.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU disk 33.7 GB 1× 32 GB (approx.)	FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 692k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 692k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-08-01; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #132 · Elo 840 (±7, 95% CI) · 9780 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #132 of 168. Memory: disk 33.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 28.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 32 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 23.8 GB Encoder T5-XXL 9.5 GB Encoder CLIP 0.2 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + T5-XXL encoder + CLIP encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	840 #133	€0.058$0.065	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 102k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	8.1B (transformer)	20.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 55.1 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 102k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-10 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 102k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-10-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #133 · Elo 840 (±9, 95% CI) · 5129 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #133 of 168. Memory: disk 55.1 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 20.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 16.3 GB Encoder T5-XXL 19.1 GB Encoders CLIP 38.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3 Large Stability AI	838 #134	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-02-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #134 · Elo 838 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,179 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #134 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Phoenix 0.9 Ultra Leonardo.Ai	835 #135	€0.068$0.076	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-06-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #135 · Elo 835 (±7, 95% CI) · 6363 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #135 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram v2a Turbo Ideogram	832 #136	€0.022$0.025	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-02-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #136 · Elo 832 (±9, 95% CI) · 2157 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #136 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo Stability AI	829 #137	€0.036$0.040	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 6.3k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	8.1B (transformer)	20.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 55.1 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 6k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-10 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 6.3k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-10-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #137 · Elo 829 (±9, 95% CI) · 5032 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #137 of 168. Memory: disk 55.1 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 20.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 16.3 GB Encoder T5-XXL 19.1 GB Encoders CLIP 38.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FIBO Lite Bria	826 #138	€0.018$0.020	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 64/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	8.3B (transformer)	20.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 24.1 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Bria FIBO (non-commercial)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 64 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-11 · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 64/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-11-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #138 · Elo 826 (±11, 95% CI) · 3247 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #138 of 168. Memory: disk 24.1 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 20.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 16.6 GB Encoder 6.2 GB VAE 1.4 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Bria FIBO (non-commercial) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Phoenix 1.0 Fast Leonardo.Ai	824 #139	€0.017$0.019	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-12-18; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #139 · Elo 824 (±8, 95% CI) · 5104 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #139 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Ideogram v2a Ideogram	820 #140	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-02-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #140 · Elo 820 (±10, 95% CI) · 2094 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #140 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Krea 1 Krea	820 #141	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-17; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #141 · Elo 820 (±9, 95% CI) · 2939 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #141 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Playground v3 (beta) Playground AI	810 #142	€0.0094$0.011	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-09-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #142 · Elo 810 (±8, 95% CI) · 6319 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #142 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.1 [schnell] Black Forest Labs	802 #143	€0.0027$0.003	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 651k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	11.9B (transformer)	28.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU disk 33.7 GB 1× 32 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 651k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 651k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-08-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #143 · Elo 802 (±7, 95% CI) · 11,521 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #143 of 168. Memory: disk 33.7 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 28.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 32 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 23.8 GB Encoder T5-XXL 9.5 GB Encoder CLIP 0.2 GB VAE 0.2 GB Disk = BF16 transformer + T5-XXL encoder + CLIP encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Luma Photon Flash Luma Labs	799 #144	€0.0045$0.005	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-12-02; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #144 · Elo 799 (±7, 95% CI) · 6804 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #144 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Step Image Edit 2 StepFun	798 #145	€0.0027$0.003	ClosedClosed	NewNew 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: NewNew Only 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-05 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-05-12; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #145 · Elo 798 (±11, 95% CI) · 1924 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #145 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4B Black Forest Labs	794 #146	€0.008$0.009	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 306k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	3.9B (transformer)	13.0 GB official (approx.) ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 16.0 GB ~13 GB (RTX 3090/4070 or better)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 306k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2026-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 306k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2026-01-15; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #146 · Elo 794 (±10, 95% CI) · 3219 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #146 of 168. Memory: disk 16.0 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 13.0 GB official (approx.) · fits on: ~13 GB (RTX 3090/4070 or better) Transformer BF16 7.8 GB Encoder 8.0 GB VAE 0.2 GB Requirement: Model card: «fits in ~13GB VRAM and is accessible on NVIDIA RTX 3090/4070 and above». source Disco = Transformer BF16 + Encoder + VAE. License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Runway Gen-4 Image Runway	792 #147	€0.071$0.080	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-11-25; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #147 · Elo 792 (±9, 95% CI) · 3133 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #147 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Lumina Image v2 OpenGVLab	782 #148	€0.067$0.075	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 1.1k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	2.6B (transformer)	13.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 21.2 GB 1× 16 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-01 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 1.1k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-01-25; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #148 · Elo 782 (±9, 95% CI) · 4438 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #148 of 168. Memory: disk 21.2 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 13.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 16 GB (approx.) Transformer F32 10.4 GB Encoder Gemma 2 10.5 GB VAE 0.3 GB AA links to GitHub; weights at Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-Image-2.0. Disk = F32 transformer + Gemma 2 encoder + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = F32 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
DALLE 3 OpenAI	777 #149	€0.036$0.040	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 2 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2023-09 · Adoption: No usage data (2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2023-09-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #149 · Elo 777 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,446 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #149 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Playground v2.5 Playground AI	777 #150	€0.071$0.080	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 260k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	2.6B (UNet)	19.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 20.8 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Playground v2.5 Community
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 260k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-02 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 260k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-02-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #150 · Elo 777 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,732 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #150 of 168. Memory: disk 20.8 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 19.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) UNet 15.4 GB Encoders CLIP 4.9 GB VAE 0.5 GB Disk = UNet + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = UNet × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Playground v2.5 Community Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
DALLE 3 HD OpenAI	775 #151	€0.071$0.080	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2023-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2023-09-26; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #151 · Elo 775 (±8, 95% CI) · 11,608 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #151 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Recraft 20B Recraft	774 #152	€0.020$0.022	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-03 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-03-13; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #152 · Elo 774 (±7, 95% CI) · 8063 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #152 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Stability AI	760 #153	€0.018$0.020	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 86k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	2.5B (transformer)	7.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 43.8 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 86k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-10 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 86k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-10-29; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #153 · Elo 760 (±10, 95% CI) · 2172 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #153 of 168. Memory: disk 43.8 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 7.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 4.9 GB Encoder T5-XXL 19.1 GB Encoders CLIP 38.6 GB VAE 0.2 GB Gated repo. Disk = BF16 transformer + CLIP encoders + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = BF16 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Sana Sprint 1.6B NVIDIA	754 #154	€0.0013$0.0015	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 71/mo HF · 1 rankingLittle usedLittle used	1.6B	9.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 6.5 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Featured: on the efficient frontier (nothing gives more performance for less money) Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Very little use · 71 HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-03 · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 71/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-03-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #154 · Elo 754 (±10, 95% CI) · 1973 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #154 of 168. Memory: disk 6.5 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 9.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Checkpoint (.pth) 6.5 GB Separate Gemma 2 2B encoder. Disk = Checkpoint (.pth). No official VRAM figure: estimate = Checkpoint (.pth) × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard) Amazon	732 #155	€0.0089$0.010	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-08 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-08-06; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #155 · Elo 732 (±9, 95% CI) · 9626 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #155 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
OmniGen V2 VectorSpaceLab	727 #156	€0.13$0.15	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 3.5k/mo HF · 1 rankingModerately usedModerately used	4B (transformer) + MLLM	19.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 31.2 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 4k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-06 · Adoption: Moderately used (⬇ 3.5k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-06-16; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #156 · Elo 727 (±9, 95% CI) · 4462 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #156 of 168. Memory: disk 31.2 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 19.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer F32 15.9 GB MLLM Qwen2.5-VL 15.0 GB VAE 0.3 GB Requirement: Model card: CPU offload cuts VRAM by almost 50%; sequential offload < 3 GB (slow). No base figure. source Disk = F32 transformer + Qwen2.5-VL MLLM + VAE. No official VRAM figure: estimate = F32 transformer × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3 Large Turbo Stability AI	722 #157	n/d	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-02 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-02-24; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #157 · Elo 722 (±9, 95% CI) · 11,082 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #157 of 168. No paid API (price n/a). Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 3 Medium Stability AI	720 #158	€0.031$0.035	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 2.7k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	n/d	7.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 15.8 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 3k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-06 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 2.7k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-06-12; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #158 · Elo 720 (±9, 95% CI) · 9971 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #158 of 168. Memory: disk 15.8 GB (FP16) · Min. VRAM 7.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Checkpoint without encoders 4.3 GB With CLIP + T5 FP8 10.9 GB With CLIP + T5 FP16 15.8 GB Gated repo; HF doesn't publish the number of parameters. Disk = With CLIP + T5 FP16. No official VRAM figure: estimate = checkpoint without encoders × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Stability AI Community (free < $1M/year) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
SDXL Lightning ByteDance	720 #159	€0.0017$0.0019	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 108k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	2.6B (SDXL UNet)	8.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 6.9 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	CreativeML OpenRAIL++-M
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 108k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2024-02 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 108k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2024-02-21; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #159 · Elo 720 (±9, 95% CI) · 11,478 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #159 of 168. Memory: disk 6.9 GB (FP16) · Min. VRAM 8.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) UNet 4 pasos 5.1 GB Checkpoint completo 4 pasos 6.9 GB LoRA 4 pasos 0.4 GB Distilled from SDXL (repo with 1, 2, 4 and 8-step variants; 49 GB in total). Disk = full 4-step checkpoint. No official VRAM figure: estimate = 4-step UNet × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: CreativeML OpenRAIL++-M Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 1.6 Stability AI	719 #160	€0.008$0.009	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2023-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2023-11-10; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #160 · Elo 719 (±9, 95% CI) · 10,927 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #160 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Amazon Titan G1 (Standard) Amazon	708 #161	€0.0089$0.010	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2023-11 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2023-11-29; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #161 · Elo 708 (±9, 95% CI) · 10,379 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #161 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Bagel ByteDance	706 #162	€0.089$0.10	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 1k/mo HF · 2 rankingsWidely usedWidely used	14B / 7B	34.0 GB approx. ▣ 1× 32–48 GB disk 29.6 GB 1× 48 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven 1k HF downloads/mo · 2 leaderboards (AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I) · from 2025-05 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 1k/mo HF · 2 rankings) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image, LMArena T2I; released: 2025-05-20; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #162 · Elo 706 (±9, 95% CI) · 4181 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #162 of 168. Memory: disk 29.6 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 34.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 48 GB (approx.) Model (EMA) 29.2 GB Autoencoder 0.3 GB Disk = Model (EMA) + Autoencoder. No official VRAM figure: estimate = Model (EMA) × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: Apache 2.0 Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Bria 3.2 Bria	705 #163	€0.036$0.040	OpenOpen	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	n/d	Repo not accessible without an account (HTTP 401): size not verified.	n/a (repo not accessible)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-07 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-07-22; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #163 · Elo 705 (±10, 95% CI) · 2658 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #163 of 168. Memory: Repo not accessible without an account (HTTP 401): size not verified. License: n/a (repo not accessible) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI	678 #164	€0.008$0.009	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 4.3M/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	2.6B (UNet)	10.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 6.9 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	CreativeML OpenRAIL++-M
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Massive use · 4.3 M HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2023-07 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 4.3M/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2023-07-23; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #164 · Elo 678 (±9, 95% CI) · 11,633 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #164 of 168. Memory: disk 6.9 GB (FP16) · Min. VRAM 10.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Single FP16 checkpoint 6.9 GB UNet (diffusers) 10.3 GB Disk = single FP16 checkpoint. No official VRAM figure: estimate = single FP16 checkpoint × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: CreativeML OpenRAIL++-M Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 2.1 Stability AI	549 #165	€0.0035$0.0039	OpenOpen	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	n/d	Repo no longer accessible on HF (HTTP 401): size not verified.	n/a (repo not accessible)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2022-12 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2022-12-07; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #165 · Elo 549 (±11, 95% CI) · 13,596 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #165 of 168. Memory: Repo no longer accessible on HF (HTTP 401): size not verified. License: n/a (repo not accessible) Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
DALLE 2 OpenAI	543 #166	€0.018$0.020	ClosedClosed	ProvenProven 1 rankingNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2022-09 · Adoption: No usage data (1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2022-09-28; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #166 · Elo 543 (±11, 95% CI) · 13,745 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #166 of 168. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Janus Pro DeepSeek	533 #167	self-host	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 11k/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	7B	18.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 14.8 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	MIT (code) + DeepSeek Model License
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Veteran · 11k HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2025-01 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 11k/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2025-01-27; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #167 · Elo 533 (±12, 95% CI) · 4696 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #167 of 168. No API (downloadable). Memory: disk 14.8 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 18.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Model (.bin) 14.8 GB AA links to GitHub; weights at deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B (there is also a 1B). Disk = Model (.bin). No official VRAM figure: estimate = Model (.bin) × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: MIT (code) + DeepSeek Model License Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Stable Diffusion 1.5 Stability AI	456 #168	€0.039$0.044	OpenOpen	ProvenProven ⬇ 1.6M/mo HF · 1 rankingWidely usedWidely used	0.86B (UNet)	7.0 GB approx. ▣ Edge · ≤10 GB ✓ Fits on your computer disk 4.3 GB 1× 8–12 GB (approx.)	CreativeML OpenRAIL-M
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: ProvenProven Massive use · 1.6 M HF downloads/mo · 1 leaderboard (AA Text-to-Image) · from 2022-10 · Adoption: Widely used (⬇ 1.6M/mo HF · 1 ranking) (leaderboards: AA Text-to-Image; released: 2022-10-01; data from 2026-10-09) Arena AA Text-to-Image: #168 · Elo 456 (±13, 95% CI) · 10,388 votes Score: AA text-to-image arena: #168 of 168. Memory: disk 4.3 GB (FP32) · Min. VRAM 7.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 8–12 GB (approx.) Checkpoint pruned EMA 4.3 GB UNet (diffusers) 3.4 GB Disk = pruned EMA checkpoint. No official VRAM figure: estimate = pruned EMA checkpoint × 1.1 + 2 GB (encoders offloaded). License: CreativeML OpenRAIL-M Source: artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image · 2026-10-09
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Alibaba	n/d	€0.014$0.016	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. Just publishedNo usage dataNo data	7.1B (transformer)	18.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 32.4 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Qwen Research (non-commercial)
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. Just released · no leaderboard of its own yet · Adoption: No usage data (Just published) (released: 2026-10-09; data from 2026-10-09) Score: 8 steps (same 7B). Turbo API $0.016/img (Singapore). Weights on HF; AA Elo n/a. Research license (non-commercial). Memory: disk 32.4 GB (BF16) · Min. VRAM 18.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Transformer BF16 (7.1B) 14.2 GB Encoder (text) BF16 17.5 GB VAE BF16 0.7 GB Requirement: Model card: no VRAM figure; same 7B architecture as Qwen-Image-2.1. source Repo ~32.4 GB (encoder 17.5 + transformer 14.2 + VAE 0.7). Research/evaluation-only license. License: Qwen Research (non-commercial) Source: docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/en/model-studio/qwen-image-2 · 2026-10-09
Magnific One Magnific	n/d	n/d	ClosedClosed	Barely testedBarely t. 0 rankingsNo usage dataNo data	—	—	—
Weights: ClosedClosed Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. No independent benchmark · 0 days · Adoption: No usage data (0 rankings) (released: 2026-10; data from 2026-10-09) Score: New (Oct 8). Credits only: 180 (High 2K) vs 50 Flux.2 Pro and 75 Nano Banana 2. Not in the arena yet. Source: www.magnific.com/pricing · 2026-10-08
Iris-3B Sperid Labs	n/d	self-host	OpenOpen	Barely testedBarely t. ⬇ 18/mo HF · 0 rankingsLittle usedLittle used	3B (+ encoder Qwen3-VL-4B)	15.0 GB approx. ▣ 1 consumer GPU ✓ Fits on your computer disk 11.9 GB 1× 24 GB (approx.)	Apache 2.0
Weights: OpenOpen 🤗 Hugging Face Maturity: Barely testedBarely t. No independent benchmark · 18 HF downloads/mo · 4 days · Adoption: Little used (⬇ 18/mo HF · 0 rankings) (released: 2026-10-05; data from 2026-10-09) Score: New (Oct 8). 3B without VAE; matches Qwen-Image on OneIG (according to its authors). Not in the arena yet. Memory: disk 11.9 GB (F32) · Min. VRAM 15.0 GB approx. · fits on: 1× 24 GB (approx.) Text to image F32 11.9 GB Requirement: Model card: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA; ~12 GB of weights for text to image; no VRAM figure. source The depth/ and upscaler/ folders add 12 GB more each; the Qwen3-VL-4B encoder is downloaded separately. License: Apache 2.0 Source: huggingface.co/speridlabs/iris-3b · 2026-10-09

Magnific One vs others (credits per image inside Magnific)

The value of a credit depends on the plan; it is not converted to USD. source

Model	Credits per image
Flux.2 Pro 1K	50
Nano Banana 2 2K	75
Seedream 5.0 Pro 1.5K	75
GPT 2.5 Medium 2K	180
Magnific One High 2K	180
Magnific One High 4K	250
Magnific One Max 2K	600

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