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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.
Seedream 4.5Seedream 5.0 LiteFLUX.2 [max]
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
  • Seedream 4.5
    Quality
    34.6
    Rank
    #24/38
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    11s

    vs Seedream 5.0 Lite: −0.1 quality · 1.1× price

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

    vs Seedream 4.5: +0.1 quality · 0.88× price

  • FLUX.2 [max]
    Quality
    30.3
    Rank
    #25/38
    Price
    $0.070/img
    Speed
    30s

    vs Seedream 5.0 Lite: −4.4 quality · 2× price

Overview

Metric
Seedream 4.5
Seedream 5.0 Lite
FLUX.2 [max]
Lab
ByteDance Seed
ByteDance Seed
Black Forest Labs
Released
Dec 5, 2025
Feb 13, 2026
Dec 16, 2025
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.040
$0.035Best
$0.070
Time per image
11sBest
—
30s

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
Seedream 4.5
Seedream 5.0 Lite
FLUX.2 [max]
Image generation
34.6±3.2
#24/38Verified
34.7±3.2Best
#23/38Verified
30.3±3.2
#25/38Verified

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
Seedream 4.5
Seedream 5.0 Lite
FLUX.2 [max]
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#21/351021Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #20FLUX.2 [max]1021
  3. #21Seedream 4.51021
  4. #22Luma UNI 1 Max1015
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
#20/351021BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #19Krea 2 Large1024
  3. #20FLUX.2 [max]1021
  4. #21Seedream 4.51021
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#22/291036Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #21Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1043
  3. #22Seedream 4.51036
  4. #23FLUX.2 [klein] 9B1014
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#19/291057BestVerified
  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
#27/29996Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #26FLUX.2 [dev]1000
  3. #27FLUX.2 [max]996
  4. #28HiDream-O1-Image953
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#21/301147Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #20Imagen 4 Ultra1148
  3. #21Seedream 4.51147
  4. #22FLUX.2 [dev]1145
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
#17/301162BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1188
  3. #17FLUX.2 [max]1162
  4. #18FLUX.2 [flex]1157
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#17/241302BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #16Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1314
  3. #17Seedream 4.51302
  4. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
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
#19/241262Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #18Seedream 5.0 Lite1294
  3. #19FLUX.2 [max]1262
  4. #20FLUX.2 [pro]1245
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~85.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated85.2%
  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
~#3/4~85.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [max]Estimated85.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated86.5%
  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
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3FLUX.2 [max]Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks