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Model Pareto

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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 4.0 (Quality)Luma UNI 1 MaxSeedream 5.0 Lite
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
  • Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
    Quality
    36.9
    Rank
    #22/38
    Price
    $0.10/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Luma UNI 1 Max: −4.1 quality · 1× price

  • Luma UNI 1 Max
    Quality
    41.0
    Rank
    #21/38
    Price
    $0.10/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality): +4.1 quality · 1× price

  • Seedream 5.0 Lite
    Quality
    34.7
    Rank
    #23/38
    Price
    $0.035/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Luma UNI 1 Max: −6.3 quality · 0.35× price

Overview

Metric
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Luma UNI 1 Max
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Lab
Ideogram
Luma AI
ByteDance Seed
Released
Jun 3, 2026
May 5, 2026
Feb 13, 2026
Weights
Open
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.10
$0.10
$0.035Best

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 4.0 (Quality)
Luma UNI 1 Max
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Image generation
36.9±4.3
#22/38Verified
41.0±3.2Best
#21/38Verified
34.7±3.2
#23/38Verified

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
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Luma UNI 1 Max
Seedream 5.0 Lite
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#23/351010Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #22Luma UNI 1 Max1015
  3. #23Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1010
  4. #24Seedream 5.0 Lite1009
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#22/351015BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #21Seedream 4.51021
  3. #22Luma UNI 1 Max1015
  4. #23Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1010
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#24/351009Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #23Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1010
  3. #24Seedream 5.0 Lite1009
  4. #25FLUX.2 [pro]1001
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
~#22/30~1037Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #21Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1043
  3. ~#22Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Estimated1037
  4. #22Seedream 4.51036
estimated from related benchmarks
#17/291069BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #16Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1071
  3. #17Luma UNI 1 Max1069
  4. #18HiDream-O1-Edit-1.51066
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#19/291057Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #18HiDream-O1-Edit-1.51066
  3. #19Seedream 5.0 Lite1057
  4. #20Qwen-Image-3.01051
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#15/301204BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1228
  3. #15Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1204
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1188
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#16/301188Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #15Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1204
  3. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1188
  4. #17FLUX.2 [max]1162
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#23/301138Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #22FLUX.2 [dev]1145
  3. #23Seedream 5.0 Lite1138
  4. #24Recraft V4.1 ProFew votes1131
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
~#18/25~1301Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #17Seedream 4.51302
  3. ~#18Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Estimated1301
  4. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
estimated from related benchmarks
#14/241334BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #13Qwen-Image-2.11367
  3. #14Luma UNI 1 Max1334
  4. #15Luma UNI 1.11315
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#18/241294Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #17Seedream 4.51302
  3. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
  4. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~85.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Estimated85.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Luma UNI 1 MaxEstimated85.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.0%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Seedream 5.0 LiteEstimated85.0%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~86.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Estimated86.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Luma UNI 1 MaxEstimated86.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Seedream 5.0 LiteEstimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks