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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.
Ideogram 4.5Qwen-Image-3.0Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 38 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, Nano Banana 2.1, MAI-Image-2.6, 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

Overview

Metric
Ideogram 4.5
Qwen-Image-3.0
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Lab
Ideogram
Alibaba Qwen
Google DeepMind
Released
Sep 30, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
—
$0.030Best
$0.034
Time per image
—
6.2s
3.1sBest

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
Ideogram 4.5
Qwen-Image-3.0
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Image generation
48.7±7.0
#20/41Verified
48.8±4.3Best
#19/41Verified
48.2±3.2
#21/41Verified

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
Ideogram 4.5
Qwen-Image-3.0
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
~#17/37~1064Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #16Qwen-Image-3.01076
  3. ~#17Ideogram 4.5Estimated1064
  4. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
estimated from related benchmarks
#16/361076Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #15Seedream 5.0 Pro1078
  3. #16Qwen-Image-3.01076
  4. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#13/361092BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #12MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1099
  3. #13Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1092
  4. #14Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1088
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#20/311064BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #19HiDream-O1-Edit-1.51066
  3. #20Ideogram 4.5Few votes1064
  4. #21Seedream 5.0 Lite1057
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-02
#22/311055Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #21Seedream 5.0 Lite1057
  3. #22Qwen-Image-3.01055
  4. #23Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1046
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#23/311046Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #22Qwen-Image-3.01055
  3. #23Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1046
  4. #24Seedream 4.51036
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
~#15/33~1233Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14GPT Image 1.51239
  3. ~#15Ideogram 4.5Estimated1233
  4. #15Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1223
estimated from related benchmarks
~#15/33~1234Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14GPT Image 1.51239
  3. ~#15Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated1234
  4. #15Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1223
estimated from related benchmarks
#12/321250Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #10Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1254
  3. #12Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1250
  4. #13Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1246
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#15/261347BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #14Qwen-Image-2.11367
  3. #15Ideogram 4.51347
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1334
arena.ai · 2026-10-06
~#16/27~1341Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #15Ideogram 4.51347
  3. ~#16Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated1341
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1334
estimated from related benchmarks
#18/261314Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #17Luma UNI 1.11315
  3. #18Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1314
  4. #19Seedream 4.51302
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Ideogram 4.5Estimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.0%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated86.0%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~87.7%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Ideogram 4.5Estimated87.7%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated87.2%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Estimated87.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks