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Model Pareto

GPT Image 2.5 Flare vs Krea 3

In image generation, GPT Image 2.5 Flare scores 90.8 and Krea 3 77.2 on the 0–100 quality scale. GPT Image 2.5 Flare costs 3.5× as much as Krea 3 ($0.21 vs $0.060 per image).
GPT Image 2.5 FlareKrea 3
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 45 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, FLUX 3 Image Klein, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, Nano Banana 2.1, Krea 3, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 3 models are not plotted: MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, Qwen-Image-2.1, Ideogram 4.5.

3 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, Qwen-Image-2.1, Ideogram 4.5

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • GPT Image 2.5 Flare
    Quality
    90.8
    Rank
    #3/47
    Price
    $0.21/img
    Speed
    56s

    vs Krea 3: +13.6 quality · 3.5× price

  • Krea 3
    Quality
    77.2
    Rank
    #5/47
    Price
    $0.060/img
    Speed
    —

    vs GPT Image 2.5 Flare: −13.6 quality · 0.28× price

Overview

Metric
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Krea 3
Lab
OpenAI
Krea
Released
Sep 8, 2026
Oct 15, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.21
$0.060Best
Time per image
56s
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Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Krea 3
Image generation
90.8±3.2Best
#3/47Verified
77.2±8.8
#5/47Verifiedbest value

Image generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Krea 3
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#2/431190Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #3Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1176
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
~#7/44~1145Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #6MAI-Image-2.61147
  3. ~#7Krea 3Estimated1145
  4. #7Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1122
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#3/381166BestVerified
  1. #1MAI-Image-2.7-PreviewFew votes1193
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  3. #3GPT Image 2.5 Flare1166
  4. #4Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1152
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#5/381151VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1MAI-Image-2.7-PreviewFew votes1193
  2. #4Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1152
  3. #5Krea 3Few votes1151
  4. #6MAI-Image-2.61143
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-30
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#2/321398Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1398
  3. #3GPT Image 21381
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
~#4/33~1336Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #3GPT Image 21381
  3. ~#4Krea 3Estimated1336
  4. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01334
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#2/261481Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1481
  3. #3GPT Image 21461
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
~#4/27~1453Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #3GPT Image 21461
  3. ~#4Krea 3Estimated1453
  4. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01441
estimated from related benchmarks
GenEval
day 0
~#2/4~88.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. ~#2GPT Image 2.5 FlareEstimated88.6%
  3. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Krea 3Estimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#2/4~88.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. ~#2GPT Image 2.5 FlareEstimated88.9%
  3. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.7%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Krea 3Estimated87.7%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks