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Model Pareto

GPT Image 2.5 Flare vs Nano Banana 2.1

In image generation, GPT Image 2.5 Flare scores 91.5 and Nano Banana 2.1 77.6 on the 0–100 quality scale. GPT Image 2.5 Flare costs 6.3× as much as Nano Banana 2.1 ($0.21 vs $0.034 per image).
GPT Image 2.5 FlareNano Banana 2.1
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 42 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 2 models are not plotted: Qwen-Image-2.1, Ideogram 4.5.

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

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
    91.5
    Rank
    #2/44
    Price
    $0.21/img
    Speed
    56s

    vs Nano Banana 2.1: +13.9 quality · 6.3× price

  • Nano Banana 2.1
    Quality
    77.6
    Rank
    #4/44
    Price
    $0.034/img
    Speed
    —

    vs GPT Image 2.5 Flare: −13.9 quality · 0.16× price

Overview

Metric
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Nano Banana 2.1
Lab
OpenAI
Google DeepMind
Released
Sep 8, 2026
Oct 6, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.21
$0.034Best
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
Nano Banana 2.1
Image generation
91.5±3.2Best
#2/44Verified
77.6±3.9
#4/44Verifiedbest 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
Nano Banana 2.1
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#2/421190BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #3Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1176
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#3/421176VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #3Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1176
  4. #4GPT Image 21171
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#2/351166BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1166
  3. #3Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1152
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#3/351152VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1166
  3. #3Nano Banana 2.1Few votes1152
  4. #4MAI-Image-2.61143
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-17
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#2/321398BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1398
  3. #3GPT Image 21381
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
#6/321328Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #4MAI-Image-2.61334
  3. #6Nano Banana 2.11328
  4. #7Muse Image1276
arena.ai · 2026-10-06
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#2/261481BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1481
  3. #3GPT Image 21461
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
#6/261428Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #5MAI-Image-2.61429
  3. #6Nano Banana 2.11428
  4. #7Muse Image1402
arena.ai · 2026-10-06
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
~#2/4~87.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. ~#2Nano Banana 2.1Estimated87.9%
  3. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
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
~#2/4~88.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. ~#2Nano Banana 2.1Estimated88.4%
  3. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
estimated from related benchmarks