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FLUX.2 [max]Krea 2 LargeSeedream 4.5
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 [max]
    Quality
    30.3
    Rank
    #25/38
    Price
    $0.070/img
    Speed
    30s

    vs Seedream 4.5: −4.3 quality · 1.8× price

  • Krea 2 Large
    Quality
    30.0
    Rank
    #26/38
    Price
    $0.060/img
    Speed
    34s

    vs Seedream 4.5: −4.6 quality · 1.5× price

  • Seedream 4.5
    Quality
    34.6
    Rank
    #24/38
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    11s

    vs FLUX.2 [max]: +4.3 quality · 0.57× price

Overview

Metric
FLUX.2 [max]
Krea 2 Large
Seedream 4.5
Lab
Black Forest Labs
Krea
ByteDance Seed
Released
Dec 16, 2025
May 26, 2026
Dec 5, 2025
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.070
$0.060
$0.040Best
Time per image
30s
34s
11sBest

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 [max]
Krea 2 Large
Seedream 4.5
Image generation
30.3±3.2
#25/38Verified
30.0±4.3
#26/38Verified
34.6±3.2Best
#24/38Verified

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 [max]
Krea 2 Large
Seedream 4.5
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#20/351021Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #19Krea 2 Large1024
  3. #20FLUX.2 [max]1021
  4. #21Seedream 4.51021
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#19/351024BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #18FLUX.2 [flex]1025
  3. #19Krea 2 Large1024
  4. #20FLUX.2 [max]1021
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#21/351021Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #20FLUX.2 [max]1021
  3. #21Seedream 4.51021
  4. #22Luma UNI 1 Max1015
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#27/29996Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
  3. #27FLUX.2 [max]996
  4. #28HiDream-O1-Image953
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
~#23/30~1022Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #22Seedream 4.51036
  3. ~#23Krea 2 LargeEstimated1022
  4. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
estimated from related benchmarks
#22/291036BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #21Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1043
  3. #22Seedream 4.51036
  4. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#17/301162BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1188
  3. #17FLUX.2 [max]1162
  4. #18FLUX.2 [flex]1157
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#26/301109Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #26GPT Image 1 Mini1109
  3. #26Krea 2 Large1109
  4. #28Z-Image Turbo1083
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#21/301147Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #20Imagen 4 Ultra1148
  3. #21Seedream 4.51147
  4. #22FLUX.2 [dev]1145
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#19/241262Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
  3. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
  4. #20FLUX.2 [pro]1245
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#19/25~1269Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
  3. ~#19Krea 2 LargeEstimated1269
  4. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
estimated from related benchmarks
#17/241302BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #16Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1314
  3. #17Seedream 4.51302
  4. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~85.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [max]Estimated85.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~84.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Krea 2 LargeEstimated84.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated85.2%
  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 [max]Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.1%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Krea 2 LargeEstimated86.1%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks