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Side by side: quality per category, price, speed, and every benchmark cell with where it came from. Pick up to four.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMuse Image
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
  • Grok Imagine Image 2.0
    Quality
    70.7
    Rank
    #5/38
    Price
    $0.060/img
    Speed
    —

    vs MAI-Image-2.6-Flash: +5.0 quality · 3.1× price

  • MAI-Image-2.6-Flash
    Quality
    65.7
    Rank
    #6/38
    Price
    $0.019/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Grok Imagine Image 2.0: −5.0 quality · 0.33× price

  • Muse Image
    Quality
    63.8
    Rank
    #7/38
    Price
    $0.010/img
    Speed
    14s

    vs Grok Imagine Image 2.0: −6.8 quality · 0.17× price

Overview

Metric
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash
Muse Image
Lab
SpaceXAI (xAI)
Microsoft AI
Meta
Released
Aug 7, 2026
Sep 4, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.060
$0.019
$0.010Best
Time per image
—
—
14s

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
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash
Muse Image
Image generation
70.6±3.2Best
#5/38Verified
65.6±4.3
#6/38Verifiedbest value
63.8±3.2
#7/38Verifiedbest 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
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash
Muse Image
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#4/351154BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #3GPT Image 21171
  3. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01154
  4. #5MAI-Image-2.61147
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#11/351100Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #10Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1101
  3. #11MAI-Image-2.6-Flash1100
  4. #12MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1099
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#7/351112Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #6Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1122
  3. #7Muse Image1112
  4. #8GPT Image 1.51102
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#11/291106Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #10MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1106
  3. #11Grok Imagine Image 2.01106
  4. #12GPT Image 1.51104
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#4/291125BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #3MAI-Image-2.61135
  3. #4MAI-Image-2.6-Flash1125
  4. #5GPT Image 21122
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/291117Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #5GPT Image 21122
  3. #6Muse Image1117
  4. #7MAI-Image-2.51114
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#5/301302BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #4MAI-Image-2.61334
  3. #5Grok Imagine Image 2.01302
  4. #6Muse Image1276
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#6/31~1288Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #5Grok Imagine Image 2.01302
  3. ~#6MAI-Image-2.6-FlashEstimated1288
  4. #6Muse Image1276
estimated from related benchmarks
#6/301276Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #5Grok Imagine Image 2.01302
  3. #6Muse Image1276
  4. #7Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1260
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#4/241430BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #3GPT Image 21461
  3. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01430
  4. #5MAI-Image-2.61429
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#6/25~1409Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #5MAI-Image-2.61429
  3. ~#6MAI-Image-2.6-FlashEstimated1409
  4. #6Muse Image1402
estimated from related benchmarks
#6/241402Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #5MAI-Image-2.61429
  3. #6Muse Image1402
  4. #7MAI-Image-2.51400
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#2/4~87.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. ~#2Grok Imagine Image 2.0Estimated87.5%
  3. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.6-FlashEstimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Muse ImageEstimated86.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~88.1%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Grok Imagine Image 2.0Estimated88.1%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.6-FlashEstimated87.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.7%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Muse ImageEstimated87.7%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks