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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.
Luma UNI 1 MaxLuma UNI 1.1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
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
  • Luma UNI 1 Max
    Quality
    41.0
    Rank
    #21/38
    Price
    $0.10/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Luma UNI 1.1: −1.1 quality · 2.5× price

  • Luma UNI 1.1
    Quality
    42.1
    Rank
    #20/38
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Luma UNI 1 Max: +1.1 quality · 0.4× price

  • Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
    Quality
    36.9
    Rank
    #22/38
    Price
    $0.10/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Luma UNI 1.1: −5.2 quality · 2.5× price

Overview

Metric
Luma UNI 1 Max
Luma UNI 1.1
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Lab
Luma AI
Luma AI
Ideogram
Released
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open
Price per image
$0.10
$0.040Best
$0.10

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
Luma UNI 1 Max
Luma UNI 1.1
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Image generation
41.0±3.2
#21/38Verified
42.1±8.2Best
#20/38Verified
36.9±4.3
#22/38Verified

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
Luma UNI 1 Max
Luma UNI 1.1
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#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
~#17/36~1044Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #16Qwen-Image-3.01076
  3. ~#17Luma UNI 1.1Estimated1044
  4. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
estimated from related benchmarks
#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
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#17/291069Verified
  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
~#21/30~1049Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #20Qwen-Image-3.01051
  3. ~#21Luma UNI 1.1Estimated1049
  4. #21Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1043
estimated from related benchmarks
~#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
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#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
~#16/31~1203Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #15Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1204
  3. ~#16Luma UNI 1.1Estimated1203
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1188
estimated from related benchmarks
#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
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#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
#15/241315Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #14Luma UNI 1 Max1334
  3. #15Luma UNI 1.11315
  4. #16Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1314
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#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
GenEval
day 0
~#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
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Luma UNI 1.1Estimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#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
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#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
~#3/4~87.7%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Luma UNI 1.1Estimated87.7%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#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