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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.
HiDream-O1-ImageFLUX.2 [dev]FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
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
  • HiDream-O1-Image
    Quality
    24.1
    Rank
    #34/38
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    7.3s

    vs FLUX.2 [dev]: −2.4 quality · 3.3× price

  • FLUX.2 [dev]
    Quality
    26.5
    Rank
    #33/38
    Price
    $0.012/img
    Speed
    16s

    vs HiDream-O1-Image: +2.4 quality · 0.3× price

  • FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
    Quality
    20.0
    Rank
    #35/38
    Price
    $0.015/img
    Speed
    4.0s

    vs FLUX.2 [dev]: −6.5 quality · 1.3× price

Overview

Metric
HiDream-O1-Image
FLUX.2 [dev]
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Lab
HiDream.ai
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs
Released
May 8, 2026
Nov 25, 2025
Jan 15, 2026
Weights
Open
Open
Open
Price per image
$0.040
$0.012Best
$0.015
Time per image
7.3s
16s
4.0sBest

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
HiDream-O1-Image
FLUX.2 [dev]
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Image generation
24.1±3.3
#34/38Mixed
26.5±3.2Best
#33/38Verified
20.0±3.2
#35/38Verified

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
HiDream-O1-Image
FLUX.2 [dev]
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#31/35978Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #30Recraft V4.1 Pro983
  3. #31HiDream-O1-Image978
  4. #32Z-Image Turbo941
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#26/351000BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #25FLUX.2 [pro]1001
  3. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
  4. #27Imagen 4 UltraFew votes997
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#33/35940Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #32Z-Image Turbo941
  3. #33FLUX.2 [klein] 9B940
  4. #34GPT Image 1 Mini914
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#28/29953Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #27FLUX.2 [max]996
  3. #28HiDream-O1-Image953
  4. #29GPT Image 1 Mini922
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#26/291000Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #25FLUX.2 [flex]1008
  3. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
  4. #27FLUX.2 [max]996
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#23/291014BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #22Seedream 4.51036
  3. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
  4. #24FLUX.2 [pro]1008
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#25/301116Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #24Recraft V4.1 ProFew votes1131
  3. #25HiDream-O1-Image1116
  4. #26GPT Image 1 Mini1109
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#22/301145BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #21Seedream 4.51147
  3. #22FLUX.2 [dev]1145
  4. #23Seedream 5.0 Lite1138
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#29/301070Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #28Z-Image Turbo1083
  3. #29FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1070
  4. #30Qwen-Image1057
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
~#24/25~1208Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #22FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1225
  3. ~#24HiDream-O1-ImageEstimated1208
  4. #24GPT Image 1 Mini1124
estimated from related benchmarks
#21/241226BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #20FLUX.2 [pro]1245
  3. #21FLUX.2 [dev]1226
  4. #22FLUX.2 [flex]1225
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#22/241225Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #22FLUX.2 [flex]1225
  3. #22FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1225
  4. #24GPT Image 1 Mini1124
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
#1/390.0%Lab-reported
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
arxiv.org · 2026-05-11
~#3/4~85.0%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [dev]Estimated85.0%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~82.8%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [klein] 9BEstimated82.8%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
#1/389.8%Lab-reported
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
arxiv.org · 2026-05-11
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [dev]Estimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [klein] 9BEstimated85.2%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks