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FLUX.2 [flex]Imagen 4 UltraMing-Image-0.1-Design
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 35 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, MAI-Image-2.6, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 1 models are not plotted: Qwen-Image-2.1.

1 model with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Qwen-Image-2.1

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • FLUX.2 [flex]
    Quality
    29.6
    Rank
    #28/38
    Price
    $0.060/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Imagen 4 Ultra: ±0.0 quality · 1× price

  • Imagen 4 Ultra
    Quality
    29.6
    Rank
    #27/38
    Price
    $0.060/img
    Speed
    —

    vs FLUX.2 [flex]: ±0.0 quality · 1× price

  • Ming-Image-0.1-Design
    Quality
    29.6
    Rank
    #29/38
    Price
    $0.030/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Imagen 4 Ultra: −0.1 quality · 0.5× price

Overview

Metric
FLUX.2 [flex]
Imagen 4 Ultra
Ming-Image-0.1-Design
Lab
Black Forest Labs
Google DeepMind
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Released
Nov 25, 2025
Jun 26, 2025
Sep 22, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open
Price per image
$0.060
$0.060
$0.030Best

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
FLUX.2 [flex]
Imagen 4 Ultra
Ming-Image-0.1-Design
Image generation
29.6±3.2
#28/38Verified
29.6±4.7Best
#27/38Verified
29.6±5.6
#29/38Verified

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
FLUX.2 [flex]
Imagen 4 Ultra
Ming-Image-0.1-Design
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#18/351025BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
  3. #18FLUX.2 [flex]1025
  4. #19Krea 2 Large1024
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#27/35997VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
  3. #27Imagen 4 UltraFew votes997
  4. #28Ming-Image-0.1-Design995
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#28/35995Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #27Imagen 4 UltraFew votes997
  3. #28Ming-Image-0.1-Design995
  4. #29Recraft V4.1989
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#25/291008Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #24FLUX.2 [pro]1008
  3. #25FLUX.2 [flex]1008
  4. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#23/30~1018Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #22Seedream 4.51036
  3. ~#23Imagen 4 UltraEstimated1018
  4. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
estimated from related benchmarks
~#23/30~1015Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #22Seedream 4.51036
  3. ~#23Ming-Image-0.1-DesignEstimated1015
  4. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#18/301157BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #17FLUX.2 [max]1162
  3. #18FLUX.2 [flex]1157
  4. #19FLUX.2 [pro]1154
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#20/301148Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #19FLUX.2 [pro]1154
  3. #20Imagen 4 Ultra1148
  4. #21Seedream 4.51147
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#23/31~1145Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #22FLUX.2 [dev]1145
  3. ~#23Ming-Image-0.1-DesignEstimated1145
  4. #23Seedream 5.0 Lite1138
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#22/241225Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #21FLUX.2 [dev]1226
  3. #22FLUX.2 [flex]1225
  4. #22FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1225
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#19/25~1267Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
  3. ~#19Imagen 4 UltraEstimated1267
  4. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
estimated from related benchmarks
~#20/25~1262Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
  3. ~#20Ming-Image-0.1-DesignEstimated1262
  4. #20FLUX.2 [pro]1245
estimated from related benchmarks
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~85.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [flex]Estimated85.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~84.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Imagen 4 UltraEstimated84.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~84.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Ming-Image-0.1-DesignEstimated84.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [flex]Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Imagen 4 UltraEstimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Ming-Image-0.1-DesignEstimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks