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Best image editing models for a 32GB Mac

A leaderboard of the best image editing models for a Mac with 32GB of memory. The best one that runs on it right now is Qwen-Image-2.1, followed by FLUX.2 [klein] 9B and FLUX.2 [dev]. Models are ranked on human votes and image editing tests. Models that run on it show the download that fits and the command to run it.

54 models · scores combine 15 benchmarks · updated how it works · find a leaderboard · benchmark your machine
task[all tasks][text to image][image to image / editing]

Scores use reviewed image to image / editing evaluations only. Compare scores within this task. Models without task measurements are excluded.

Models for 32GB RAM · Apple Silicon → ~21GB fast · reset
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chip[M1 Pro][M1 Max][M2 Pro][M2 Max][M4][M5][M6 (24/32GB)]

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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

$ terminal

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Run curl "whatmodel.sh/image?ram=32&gpu=apple"to get this list in your terminal (add &format=json for agents).

ram[8][16][24][32][48][64][96][128][192][256]GB
gpu[apple silicon][graphics card][none]
price[local][$0.002][$0.005][$0.01][$0.02][$0.05][$0.1][any]max per image

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Score vs API price

#modeltask score↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
#modeltask score↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI83±3*api $0.013/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI78±3*api $0.013/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
3GPT Image 2 OpenAI76±3*api $0.053/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
5Nano Banana 2.1 Google72±3*api $0.034/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
6Grok Imagine Image 2.0 SpaceXAI72±3*api $0.040/imagedocs.x.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
7Muse Image Meta69±3*api $0.010/imagedev.meta.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
9Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) Google68±2api $0.13/imageai.google.dev ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingTECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated ImagesGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI Environments
10Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance Seed68±3*api $0.050/imagedeepinfra.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
11ChatGPT Image Latest (chatgpt-image-latest) OpenAI68±3*api $0.034/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
12Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) Google68±2api $0.067/imageai.google.dev ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetTECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated ImagesMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3
13Reve 2.1 Reve66±3*api $0.25/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
14Grok Imagine Image Pro SpaceXAI (xAI)66±7*api $0.050/imagedocs.x.ai ↗TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images
15Qwen-Image-2.1 · int8 convrot + Qwen3-VL 8B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Alibaba66±3*local~16GBhow to run › LMArena leaderboard dataset
16Reve 2.0 Reve65±3*api $0.25/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
18GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI63±2api $0.034/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsTECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated ImagesMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3
19Uni-1.1 Max Luma AI62±3*api $0.10/imagelumalabs.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
20Grok Imagine Image SpaceXAI (xAI)61±3*api $0.020/imagedocs.x.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
21Uni-1.1 Luma AI60±3*api $0.040/imagelumalabs.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
22Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) Google59±3*api $0.034/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
23Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance Seed59±3*api $0.035/imagedocs.byteplus.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetTECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images
24Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba58±3*api $0.075/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
25HunyuanImage 3.0-Instruct Tencent58±3*api $0.090/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
26Wan 2.7 Image Pro Alibaba58±3*api $0.075/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
27Seedream 4.5 ByteDance58±2api $0.040/imagedocs.byteplus.com ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI Environments
28Wan 2.7 Image Alibaba58±2*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard dataset
30FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs54±3*api $0.070/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
32FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs53±3*api $0.030/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI Environments
33Kling Image O1 Kuaishou (Kling AI)53±3*api $0.028/imagekling.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
34Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Google52±2api $0.039/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)+1
35Seedream 4.0 ByteDance Seed52±2api $0.040/imagedeepinfra.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)
36Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 Alibaba51±3api $0.030/image~26GBfal.ai ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingBAAI — OmniGen2 technical report
37GPT Image 1 OpenAI51±2api $0.042/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)+1
38Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Alibaba51±2api $0.030/image~37GBfal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3
39FLUX.2 [klein] 9B · gguf-q4_0 + Qwen3 8B q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Black Forest Labs51±3*local~14GBhow to run › LMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
41LongCat-Image-Edit Meituan50±2api $0.15/imagefal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
42Wan 2.6 Image Alibaba50±3*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
43FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs50±3*api $0.050/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
46Imagen 4 Google49±5*api $0.040/imagecloud.google.com ↗ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
47Qwen-Image-Edit Alibaba49±2api $0.030/image~27GBfal.ai ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3
48FLUX.2 [dev] · mlx-int4 (Flux2CLI, Swift) Black Forest Labs49±2local~20GBhow to run › Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
49P-Image-Edit Pruna48±3*api $0.010/imagereplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
51FLUX.2 [klein] 4B · bf16 + Qwen3 4B bf16 (sd.cpp) Black Forest Labs47±3*local~20GBhow to run › LMArena leaderboard datasetGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
52GLM-Image Z.ai47±6*api $0.015/imagedocs.z.ai ↗GEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
55Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram46±5*api $0.060/imagefal.ai ↗ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
56Qwen-Image Alibaba46±5*api $0.025/image~22GBreplicate.com ↗ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
57Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview Alibaba45±3*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
58FLUX.1 Kontext [max] Black Forest Labs45±3*api $0.080/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
61GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI42±3*api $0.011/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
64FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] Black Forest Labs39±2api $0.040/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)CREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)
65FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] · gguf-q4_k_m (sd.cpp) Black Forest Labs36±2local~21GBhow to run › Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)+2
68FLUX1.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs34±7*api $0.040/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
69OmniGen2 BAAI34±2api $0.15/imagefal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)BAAI — OmniGen2 technical reportMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3+1
70BAGEL ByteDance Seed33±2api $0.10/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingCREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)BAAI — OmniGen2 technical report+3
71Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large · q8_0 (sd.cpp --type) Stability AI33±7*local~18GBhow to run › ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)

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* 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