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Best image models for a 128GB PC without a graphics card

A leaderboard of the best image models for a computer with 128GB of RAM and no graphics card. The best one that runs on it right now is Qwen-Image-2.1, followed by LLaDA-Image and LLaDA-Image-Turbo. Models are ranked by one score that combines 73 published benchmarks. Models that run on it show the download that fits and the command to run it.

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curl -G whatmodel.sh/image -d max=0 --data-urlencode "mac=$(sysctl -n hw.memsize machdep.cpu.brand_string)"Mac

curl -G whatmodel.sh/image -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$(awk '/MemT/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>/dev/null)"Linux

curl.exe -G whatmodel.sh/image -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$((gcim Win32_ComputerSystem).TotalPhysicalMemory)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>$null)"Windows

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Score vs API price

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#	model	score↓	where↓	speed↓	RAM↓	get it	sources

#	model	score↓	where↓	RAM↓	get it	sources
1	GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI	92±2	api $0.013/image		fal.ai ↗
2	GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI	88±2	api $0.013/image		fal.ai ↗
3	GPT Image 2 OpenAI	85±1	api $0.053/image		fal.ai ↗	+5
5	Nano Banana 2.1 Google	81±2*	api $0.034/image		ai.google.dev ↗
6	Grok Imagine Image 2.0 SpaceXAI	79±2	api $0.040/image		docs.x.ai ↗
7	Reve 2.1 Reve	78±2	api $0.25/image		fal.ai ↗
8	Muse Image Meta	76±2	api $0.010/image		dev.meta.ai ↗
9	Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) Google	76±1	api $0.067/image		ai.google.dev ↗	+7
10	Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) Google	76±1	api $0.13/image		ai.google.dev ↗	+10
11	Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba	75±2	api $0.040/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
12	Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance Seed	75±2	api $0.050/image		deepinfra.com ↗
13	Reve 2.0 Reve	74±2*	api $0.25/image		fal.ai ↗
14	ChatGPT Image Latest (chatgpt-image-latest) OpenAI	74±4*	api $0.034/image		developers.openai.com ↗
16	Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) Google	73±2	api $0.034/image		ai.google.dev ↗
17	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	71±1	api $0.034/image		developers.openai.com ↗	+5
18	Qwen-Image-2.1 · int8 convrot + Qwen3-VL 8B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Alibaba	69±2	local (slow)	~16GB	how to run ›
20	Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba	67±2*	api $0.075/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
21	Uni-1.1 Luma AI	67±2*	api $0.040/image		lumalabs.ai ↗
23	Ideogram 4.0 Ideogram	66±2*	api $0.060/image +local	~29GB	www.together.ai ↗
24	Qwen-Image 2.0 Pro Alibaba	66±3	api $0.075/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
26	Grok Imagine Image SpaceXAI (xAI)	66±2	api $0.020/image		docs.x.ai ↗
27	Uni-1.1 Max Luma AI	65±2	api $0.10/image		lumalabs.ai ↗
28	Grok Imagine Image Pro SpaceXAI (xAI)	65±2	api $0.050/image		docs.x.ai ↗
29	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance Seed	65±2	api $0.035/image		docs.byteplus.com ↗	+2
30	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	64±1	api $0.040/image		docs.byteplus.com ↗	+1
31	Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro Recraft	64±2*	api $0.21/image		www.recraft.ai ↗
32	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	64±1	api $0.070/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
33	Wan 2.7 Image Pro Alibaba	63±2	api $0.075/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
36	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	63±2	api $0.030/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
37	FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs	62±2	api $0.050/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
38	HunyuanImage 3.0-Instruct Tencent	62±3*	api $0.090/image		fal.ai ↗
39	Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Google	62±1	api $0.039/image		ai.google.dev ↗	+10
40	Wan 2.7 Image Alibaba	62±2	api $0.030/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
41	Imagen 4 Ultra Google	61±2	api $0.060/image		cloud.google.com ↗
42	GPT Image 1 OpenAI	61±1	api $0.042/image		developers.openai.com ↗	+9
43	Wan 2.6 Text-to-Image Alibaba	61±3*	api $0.030/image		deepinfra.com ↗
45	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance Seed	61±1	api $0.040/image		deepinfra.com ↗	+5
46	Recraft V4.1 Pro Recraft	61±3*	api $0.21/image		www.recraft.ai ↗
47	ERNIE-Image-Turbo Baidu	61±3†	api $0.010/image +local	~29GB	fal.ai ↗
49	ERNIE-Image Baidu	60±2	api $0.030/image +local	~17GB	fal.ai ↗
50	Kling Image O1 Kuaishou (Kling AI)	60±4*	api $0.028/image		kling.ai ↗
51	Krea 2 Medium Krea	60±3*	api $0.030/image		www.krea.ai ↗
52	Imagen 4 Google	59±2	api $0.040/image		cloud.google.com ↗
53	Wan 2.5 Text-to-Image Preview Alibaba	59±3*	api $0.030/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
54	Recraft V4 Recraft	59±3*	api $0.040/image		www.recraft.ai ↗
56	Krea 2 Turbo Krea	59±3*	api $0.015/image +local	~20GB	www.krea.ai ↗
57	GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI	59±2	api $0.011/image		developers.openai.com ↗
58	Krea 2 Large Krea	59±3*	api $0.060/image		www.krea.ai ↗
59	Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 Alibaba	59±3	api $0.030/image +local	~26GB	fal.ai ↗
60	HiDream-O1-Image HiDream	58±2	api $0.010/image		fal.ai ↗
61	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	58±1	api $0.046/image +local	~41GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗	+8
63	Z-Image (Base) Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)	58±2	api $0.010/image +local	~25GB	fal.ai ↗
64	Wan 2.6 Image Alibaba	58±4*	api $0.030/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
65	HunyuanImage 2.1 Tencent	58±2*	api $0.10/image		fal.ai ↗
66	Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Alibaba	58±2	api $0.030/image +local	~37GB	fal.ai ↗	+2
67	Recraft V4.1 Flash Recraft	57±3*	api $0.0070/image		www.recraft.ai ↗
68	HunyuanImage 3.0 Tencent	57±2	api $0.080/image		replicate.com ↗	+3
72	LongCat-Image-Edit Meituan	56±2	api $0.15/image		fal.ai ↗
74	P-Image-Edit Pruna	56±4*	api $0.010/image		replicate.com ↗
76	Qwen-Image-2512 Alibaba	56±1	api $0.020/image +local	~22GB	replicate.com ↗	+1
78	Z-Image-Turbo Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)	55±1	api $0.0050/image +local	~7.7GB	replicate.com ↗	+1
79	LLaDA-Image · f16 + LLaDA2 text encoder q8_0 (sd.cpp) Ant Group	55±3†	local (slow)	~39GB	how to run ›
80	Qwen-Image-Edit Alibaba	55±2	api $0.030/image +local	~47GB	fal.ai ↗	+4
82	FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Black Forest Labs	55±2	api $0.015/image +local	~14GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗
83	FLUX.1 Kontext [max] Black Forest Labs	55±2	api $0.080/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
85	Qwen-Image Alibaba	54±1	api $0.025/image +local	~37GB	replicate.com ↗	+8
87	LLaDA-Image-Turbo · f16 + LLaDA2 text encoder q8_0 (sd.cpp) Ant Group	54±3†	local (slow)	~39GB	how to run ›
88	LongCat-Image Meituan	53±4	api $0.13/image +local	~15GB	fal.ai ↗
90	Kling Image 2.1 Kuaishou	53±7*	api $0.014/image		kling.ai ↗
92	Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview Alibaba	53±4*	api $0.030/image		www.alibabacloud.com ↗
93	MiniMax image-01 MiniMax	53±5*	api $0.0035/image		platform.minimax.io ↗
94	Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram	52±2	api $0.060/image		fal.ai ↗
97	FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Black Forest Labs	52±2	api $0.0011/image +local	~20GB	developers.cloudflare.com ↗
98	P-Image Pruna	51±2*	api $0.0050/image		replicate.com ↗
99	Photon Luma AI	51±2	api $0.019/image		fal.ai ↗
100	Recraft V3 Recraft	50±2	api $0.040/image		www.recraft.ai ↗
101	FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] Black Forest Labs	50±2	api $0.040/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
102	GLM-Image Z.ai	50±2	api $0.015/image		docs.z.ai ↗
104	Runway Gen-4 Image Runway	50±3*	api $0.050/image		docs.dev.runwayml.com ↗
105	Lucid Origin Leonardo.Ai	49±3*	api $0.017/image		replicate.com ↗
113	Ovis-Image-7B · gguf-q4_0 + Ovis 2.5 (sd.cpp) Alibaba (AIDC-AI)	48±7*	local (slow)	~12GB	how to run ›
114	FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs / Krea	47±3	api $0.025/image		replicate.com ↗
116	HiDream-I1-Full HiDream	47±2	api $0.050/image		fal.ai ↗
118	Ideogram 2.0 Ideogram	46±2	api $0.080/image		replicate.com ↗
120	FLUX1.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs	46±2	api $0.040/image		docs.bfl.ai ↗
126	FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] Black Forest Labs	44±1	api $0.025/image +local	~28GB	replicate.com ↗	+7
127	FLUX.1 [dev] Black Forest Labs	44±1	api $0.025/image +local	~28GB	replicate.com ↗	+5
131	Lumina-Image 2.0 Alpha-VLLM (Shanghai AI Lab)	43±4*	api $0.075/image		fal.ai ↗
133	BAGEL ByteDance Seed	42±1	api $0.10/image		fal.ai ↗	+14
135	FLUX.1 [schnell] Black Forest Labs	42±2	api $0.0030/image +local	~28GB	replicate.com ↗
136	OmniGen2 BAAI	42±2	api $0.15/image		fal.ai ↗	+6
137	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	42±1	api $0.065/image +local	~34GB	replicate.com ↗	+4
139	Playground v2 (1024px aesthetic) · fp16 (sd.cpp) Playground	41±4*	local (slow)	~8.8GB	how to run ›
141	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Stability AI	41±3	api $0.035/image		platform.stability.ai ↗
148	Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 (base) · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) Stability AI	40±6*	local (slow)	~4.9GB	how to run ›
149	Stable Diffusion 3 Medium Stability AI	40±2	api $0.035/image +local	~19GB	fal.ai ↗
153	Janus-Pro-7B DeepSeek	38±2	api $0.0020/image		deepinfra.com ↗
156	SDXL-Lightning (4-step UNet) · fp16 (sd.cpp) ByteDance	37±3*	local (slow)	~8.8GB	how to run ›
158	Janus-Pro-1B DeepSeek	36±4	api $0.0005/image		deepinfra.com ↗
161	SSD-1B · fp16 (sd.cpp) Segmind	36±4*	local (slow)	~5.9GB	how to run ›
167	Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI	34±1	api $0.0019/image +local	~8.8GB	www.together.ai ↗	+8
170	SDXL-Turbo · fp16 (sd.cpp) Stability AI	34±2	local (slow)	~8.8GB	how to run ›
178	Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) Dreamlike.art	30±3	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
183	DALL·E Mega (minDALL-E) · fp32 DALL·E Mini / minDALL-E	29±4	local (slow)	~8GB	how to run ›
185	Openjourney · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) PromptHero	28±2	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
186	Stable Diffusion v1.4 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) CompVis	27±2	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
187	Stable Diffusion v1.3 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) CompVis	27±4*	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
188	Stable Diffusion v1.1 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) CompVis	26±3	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
189	Stable Diffusion v1.2 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) CompVis	26±3*	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›
191	Stable Diffusion v1.5 · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) Stability AI	26±2	local (slow)	~2.1GB	how to run ›	+1
193	LCM Dreamshaper v7 · openvino-fp16 (OpenVINO GenAI) SimianLuo (LCM authors)	23±4*	local (slow)	~3GB	how to run ›
—	Mage-Flow · bf16 + Qwen3-VL 4B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Microsoft	not yet calibrated	local (slow)	~14GB	how to run ›
—	Mage-Flow-Base · bf16 + Qwen3-VL 4B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Microsoft	not yet calibrated	local (slow)	~14GB	how to run ›
—	Mage-Flow-Turbo · bf16 + Qwen3-VL 4B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Microsoft	not yet calibrated	local (slow)	~14GB	how to run ›

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202 of 202 catalogue models listed here · sources and licences

* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † only the maker’s own numbers so far · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory