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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.
MAI-Image-2.5Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro 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 Seedream 5.0 Pro: +2.8 quality · 0.53× price

  • Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
    Quality
    58.0
    Rank
    #12/38
    Price
    $0.13/img
    Speed
    17s

    vs MAI-Image-2.5: −2.9 quality · 2.8× price

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

    vs MAI-Image-2.5: −2.8 quality · 1.9× price

Overview

Metric
MAI-Image-2.5
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Lab
Microsoft AI
Google DeepMind
ByteDance Seed
Released
Jun 2, 2026
Nov 20, 2025
Jul 8, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.048Best
$0.13
$0.090
Time per image
28s
17sBest
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 Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Image generation
60.9±3.2Best
#10/38Verified
58.0±3.2
#12/38Verified
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 Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
Seedream 5.0 Pro
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#9/351102BestVerified
  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
#10/351101Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #9MAI-Image-2.51102
  3. #10Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1101
  4. #11MAI-Image-2.6-Flash1100
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
#13/291098Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #12GPT Image 1.51104
  3. #13Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1098
  4. #14Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1082
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
#12/301246Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #11Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1250
  3. #12Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1246
  4. #13GPT Image 1.51239
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#8/301256BestVerified
  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
#9/241390Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #9Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1390
  3. #9Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1390
  4. #11Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1388
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
~#3/4~86.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Estimated86.6%
  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
~#3/4~87.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Estimated87.4%
  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