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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 5.0 LiteIdeogram 4.0 (Quality)Seedream 4.5
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 5.0 Lite
    Quality
    34.7
    Rank
    #23/38
    Price
    $0.035/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality): −2.2 quality · 0.35× price

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

    vs Seedream 5.0 Lite: +2.2 quality · 2.9× price

  • Seedream 4.5
    Quality
    34.6
    Rank
    #24/38
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    11s

    vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality): −2.3 quality · 0.4× price

Overview

Metric
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Seedream 4.5
Lab
ByteDance Seed
Ideogram
ByteDance Seed
Released
Feb 13, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
Dec 5, 2025
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.035Best
$0.10
$0.040
Time per image
—
—
11s

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 5.0 Lite
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Seedream 4.5
Image generation
34.7±3.2
#23/38Verified
36.9±4.3Best
#22/38Verified
34.6±3.2
#24/38Verified

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 5.0 Lite
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)
Seedream 4.5
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#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
#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
#21/351021BestVerified
  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
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#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
~#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
#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
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#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
#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
#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
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#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
~#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
#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
GenEval
day 0
~#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
~#3/4~85.4%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
~#3/4~85.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated85.2%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#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
~#3/4~86.6%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
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Seedream 4.5Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks