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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.
MAI-Image-2.5Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Seedream 5.0 Pro
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
  • MAI-Image-2.5
    Quality
    60.9
    Rank
    #10/38
    Price
    $0.048/img
    Speed
    28s

    vs Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): −0.9 quality · 0.72× price

  • Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
    Quality
    61.8
    Rank
    #9/38
    Price
    $0.067/img
    Speed
    8.9s

    vs MAI-Image-2.5: +0.9 quality · 1.4× price

  • Seedream 5.0 Pro
    Quality
    58.0
    Rank
    #11/38
    Price
    $0.090/img
    Speed
    68s

    vs Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): −3.7 quality · 1.3× price

Overview

Metric
MAI-Image-2.5
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Lab
Microsoft AI
Google DeepMind
ByteDance Seed
Released
Jun 2, 2026
Feb 26, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.048Best
$0.067
$0.090
Time per image
28s
8.9sBest
68s

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
MAI-Image-2.5
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Image generation
60.9±3.2
#10/38Verified
61.8±3.2Best
#9/38Verified
58.0±3.2
#11/38Verified

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
MAI-Image-2.5
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#9/351102Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #8GPT Image 1.51102
  3. #9MAI-Image-2.51102
  4. #10Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1101
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/351122BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #5MAI-Image-2.61147
  3. #6Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1122
  4. #7Muse Image1112
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#15/351078Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #14Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1088
  3. #15Seedream 5.0 Pro1078
  4. #16Qwen-Image-3.01076
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#7/291114BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #6Muse Image1117
  3. #7MAI-Image-2.51114
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1109
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#9/291108Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1109
  3. #9Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1108
  4. #10MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1106
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#8/291109Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #7MAI-Image-2.51114
  3. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1109
  4. #9Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1108
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#9/301254Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1256
  3. #9MAI-Image-2.51254
  4. #9Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1254
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#7/301260BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #6Muse Image1276
  3. #7Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1260
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1256
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#8/301256Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #7Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1260
  3. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1256
  4. #9MAI-Image-2.51254
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#7/241400BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #6Muse Image1402
  3. #7MAI-Image-2.51400
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1394
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#11/241388Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #9Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1390
  3. #11Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1388
  4. #12GPT Image 1.51370
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#8/241394Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #7MAI-Image-2.51400
  3. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1394
  4. #9Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1390
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~86.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5Estimated86.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Estimated86.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Seedream 5.0 ProEstimated86.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~87.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5Estimated87.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Estimated87.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Seedream 5.0 ProEstimated87.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks