17 AI image models from 9 labs. 2 have weights you can download. Input prices run from $1.50 to $8 per 1M tokens. The largest context window is 66K tokens (Gemini 3 Pro Image). Newest check: 12 Nov 2026.
94 of 197 models were checked against the vendor's own page in the last 30 days.
| Model | Lab | Context | In / out per 1M | Reads and writes | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedream 5.5ByteDance Seed's November 2026 image model: native RGBA output and multi-round editing, ranked by Artificial Analysis at 1135 Elo. | ByteDance | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 11 Nov |
| GPT Image 2.6GPT Image 2.6 is OpenAI's Nov 4, 2026 image model, with Flare and Sunburst API snapshots, GIF and SVG output, and faster generation. | OpenAI | -- | $8 / $30 | text, image → image | Available | 7 Nov |
| Nano Banana 2.1Google's image generation and editing model in the Gemini API, with 1K to 4K output and multi-image reference mixing, generally available since October 2026. | -- | $1.50 / $7.50 | text, image, video → image, text | Available | 15 Oct | |
| Qwen-Image-2.1Qwen-Image-2.1 is Alibaba's 7B open-weight diffusion model, released in September 2026 with native transparent image output and multi-image editing. | Alibaba Cloud | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 25 Sep |
| ChatGPT Images 2.5OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5, released September 8, 2026, adds Sketch reference drawing and comment-based edits across two API snapshots, Flare and Sunburst. | OpenAI | -- | -- / $30 | text, image → image | Available | 13 Sep |
| MAI-Image-2.6MAI-Image-2.6 is Microsoft AI's September 2026 image model for text-to-image and editing, with a 32,000-token context window. | Microsoft | 32K | -- | text, image → image | Available | 10 Nov |
| Grok Imagine Image 2.0xAI's second-gen image model, live in the Grok app since August 7, 2026, with region-precise editing and a #2 global Arena ranking. | xAI | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 16 Sep |
| Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed's July 2026 image model adds point and lasso editing and layer separation; Artificial Analysis scores it 1102 Elo for text-to-image. | ByteDance | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 11 Nov |
| MAI-Image-2.5MAI-Image-2.5 is Microsoft AI's June 2026 diffusion model, ranked #3 for text-to-image and #2 for image editing on Arena. | Microsoft | 32K | $5 / $47 | text, image → image | Available | 1 Sep |
| Recraft V4.1Recraft V4.1 is Recraft's May 2026 image model family: nine variants priced per image from a Flash tier to Pro vectors, raster or native SVG, all testable on the free plan. | Recraft | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 7 Oct |
| GPT Image 2OpenAI's April 2026 image flagship integrates O-series reasoning for 99% text accuracy, natural language inpainting, and 2K resolution via a token-based API. | OpenAI | -- | $8 / $30 | text, image → image | Available | 30 Aug |
| Seedream 5.0 LiteByteDance Seed's February 2026 Lite model reasons over prompts and can search the web; Artificial Analysis scores it 1020 Elo for text-to-image. | ByteDance | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 11 Nov |
| Riverflow 2.0 ProSourceful's Riverflow 2.0 Pro (February 2026) tops Artificial Analysis's leaderboards for both text-to-image and image editing. Agentic self-correction pipeline, 4K output, and accurate in-image text rendering built for commercial brand design. | Sourceful | 8K | -- | text, image → image | Available | 30 Aug |
| Seedream 4.5ByteDance's Seedream 4.5, announced by BytePlus on 3 December 2025, takes up to 10 reference images; Artificial Analysis scores it 1030 Elo for text-to-image. | ByteDance | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 11 Nov |
| FLUX.2FLUX.2 by Black Forest Labs (Nov 2025) is a 32B rectified flow transformer family producing up to 4MP images. Five variants span open-weight klein to grounded [max], with multi-reference editing and hex color control. | Black Forest Labs | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 4 Oct |
| Gemini 3 Pro ImageNano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), released Nov 20, 2025 by Google DeepMind, generates 4K images with 94% text accuracy and Search-grounded facts. | 66K | $2 / $12 | text, image → image, text | Available | 1 Sep | |
| Recraft V3Recraft's former flagship image model, a previous generation since V4, still the API line for inpainting and exact text placement at 1K output. | Recraft | -- | -- | text, image → image | Available | 12 Nov |
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