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Image models in the LMArena text-to-image model set

A leaderboard of the best image models. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst is #1 right now, followed by GPT Image 2.5 Flare and GPT Image 2. Models are ranked by one score that combines 73 published benchmarks. Filter by your computer or budget to find the best one you can use.

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1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI92±2api $0.013/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI88±2api $0.013/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)
3GPT Image 2 OpenAI85±1api $0.053/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1InfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)PaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing (arXiv:2606.00188v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)+5
4MAI-Image-2.6 Microsoft AI81±2*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
5Nano Banana 2.1 Google81±2*api $0.034/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
6Grok Imagine Image 2.0 SpaceXAI79±2api $0.040/imagedocs.x.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
7Reve 2.1 Reve78±2api $0.25/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
8Muse Image Meta76±2api $0.010/imagedev.meta.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
9Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) Google76±1api $0.067/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetInfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1GenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings+7
10Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) Google76±1api $0.13/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetInfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1ChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)+10
11Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba75±2api $0.040/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
12Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance Seed75±2api $0.050/imagedeepinfra.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
13Reve 2.0 Reve74±2*api $0.25/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
14ChatGPT Image Latest (chatgpt-image-latest) OpenAI74±4*api $0.034/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
15MAI-Image-2.5 Microsoft AI74±2comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
16Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) Google73±2api $0.034/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1
17GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI71±1api $0.034/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)GEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing+5
18Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba69±2local~12GBhow to run › LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)
19Ideogram 4.5 Ideogram68±3*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
20Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba67±2*api $0.075/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
21Uni-1.1 Luma AI67±2*api $0.040/imagelumalabs.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
22Boogu-Image-0.1 Base Boogu project67±5*comparison onlyUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
23Ideogram 4.0 Ideogram66±2*api $0.060/image +local~6.1GBwww.together.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
24Qwen-Image 2.0 Pro Alibaba66±3api $0.075/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗ChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsFaithful, Enriched, and Precise: Benchmarking Natural-Science Illustration Generation by T2I models (FEPBench)Qwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
25MAI-Image-2 Microsoft AI66±3*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
26Grok Imagine Image SpaceXAI (xAI)66±2api $0.020/imagedocs.x.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
27Uni-1.1 Max Luma AI65±2api $0.10/imagelumalabs.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
28Grok Imagine Image Pro SpaceXAI (xAI)65±2api $0.050/imagedocs.x.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsTECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images
29Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance Seed65±2api $0.035/imagedocs.byteplus.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetInfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)ChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal ConsistencyRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsFaithful, Enriched, and Precise: Benchmarking Natural-Science Illustration Generation by T2I models (FEPBench)+2
30Seedream 4.5 ByteDance64±1api $0.040/imagedocs.byteplus.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing+1
31Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro Recraft64±2*api $0.21/imagewww.recraft.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
32FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs64±1api $0.070/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsEdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)Qwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image EvaluationKnowledge Visualization: A Benchmark and Method for Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv:2604.22302v1)
33Wan 2.7 Image Pro Alibaba63±2api $0.075/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
34Reve V1.5 Reve63±3*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
35Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image NVIDIA63±2local~154GBhow to run › LMArena leaderboard datasetCosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (arXiv:2606.02800v4)
36FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs63±2api $0.030/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetCan Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal ConsistencyGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsQwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
37FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs62±2api $0.050/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
38HunyuanImage 3.0-Instruct Tencent62±3*api $0.090/image +local~203GBfal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetInfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)
39Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Google62±1api $0.039/imageai.google.dev ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)InfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)+10
40Wan 2.7 Image Alibaba62±2api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
41Imagen 4 Ultra Google61±2api $0.060/imagecloud.google.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsQwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
42GPT Image 1 OpenAI61±1api $0.042/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)+9
43Wan 2.6 Text-to-Image Alibaba61±3*api $0.030/imagedeepinfra.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
44Reve V1.1 Reve61±4*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
45Seedream 4.0 ByteDance Seed61±1api $0.040/imagedeepinfra.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportGEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Edits+5
46Recraft V4.1 Pro Recraft61±3*api $0.21/imagewww.recraft.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
47ERNIE-Image-Turbo Baidu61±3†api $0.010/image +local~17GBfal.ai ↗ERNIE-Image model repository evaluation tables
48Emu3.5-Image BAAI60±5*local~85GBhow to run › TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)
49ERNIE-Image Baidu60±2api $0.030/image +local~17GBfal.ai ↗ERNIE-Image model repository evaluation tablesQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
50Kling Image O1 Kuaishou (Kling AI)60±4*api $0.028/imagekling.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
51Krea 2 Medium Krea60±3*api $0.030/imagewww.krea.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
52Imagen 4 Google59±2api $0.040/imagecloud.google.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsQwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
53Wan 2.5 Text-to-Image Preview Alibaba59±3*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
54Recraft V4 Recraft59±3*api $0.040/imagewww.recraft.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
55FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1 FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)59±4*comparison onlyChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)MultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3
56Krea 2 Turbo Krea59±3*api $0.015/image +local~20GBwww.krea.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
57GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI59±2api $0.011/imagedevelopers.openai.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
58Krea 2 Large Krea59±3*api $0.060/imagewww.krea.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
59Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 Alibaba59±3api $0.030/image +local~26GBfal.ai ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingHP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing (arXiv:2604.19406v1)ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)BAAI — OmniGen2 technical report
60HiDream-O1-Image HiDream58±2api $0.010/image +local~5.3GBfal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsHiDream-ai/HiDream-O1-Image repository README results
61FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs58±1api $0.046/image +local~20GBdevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)+8
62Reve V1 Reve58±4*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
63Z-Image (Base) Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)58±2api $0.010/image +local~10GBfal.ai ↗Tongyi-MAI (Alibaba) — Z-Image technical reportQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
64Wan 2.6 Image Alibaba58±4*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
65HunyuanImage 2.1 Tencent58±2*api $0.10/image +local~64GBfal.ai ↗Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal Consistency
66Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Alibaba58±2api $0.030/image +local~37GBfal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingLMArena leaderboard datasetChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)InfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing (arXiv:2609.33286v1)GEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingMultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3+2
67Recraft V4.1 Flash Recraft57±3*api $0.0070/imagewww.recraft.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
68HunyuanImage 3.0 Tencent57±2api $0.080/image +local~49GBreplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (arXiv:2606.02800v4)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsFaithful, Enriched, and Precise: Benchmarking Natural-Science Illustration Generation by T2I models (FEPBench)+3
69Emu3.5 BAAI57±5*local~85GBhow to run › TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)
70JoyAI-Image-Edit JD (JoyAI)57±3*comparison onlyEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
71MAI-Image-1 Microsoft AI57±3*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
72LongCat-Image-Edit Meituan56±2api $0.15/image +local~36GBfal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)GEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingPaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing (arXiv:2606.00188v1)ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
73Seedream 3.0 ByteDance Seed56±2comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)GenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboard
74P-Image-Edit Pruna56±4*api $0.010/imagereplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
75FireRed-Image-Edit-1.0 FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)56±4*comparison onlyChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)
76Qwen-Image-2512 Alibaba56±1api $0.020/image +local~22GBreplicate.com ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)LMArena leaderboard datasetVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (arXiv:2606.02800v4)Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal Consistency+1
77Reve V1.1 Fast Reve56±4*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
78Z-Image-Turbo Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)55±1api $0.0050/image +local~7.7GBreplicate.com ↗Tongyi-MAI (Alibaba) — Z-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (arXiv:2606.02800v4)Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal Consistency+1
79LLaDA-Image Ant Group55±3†local~22GBhow to run › LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training RecipesUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
80Qwen-Image-Edit Alibaba55±2api $0.030/image +local~27GBfal.ai ↗Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportLMArena leaderboard datasetChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)GEBench: Benchmarking Image Generation Models as GUI EnvironmentsUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsHP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing (arXiv:2604.19406v1)+4
81FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9B Black Forest Labs55±4*comparison onlyChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)
82FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Black Forest Labs55±2api $0.015/image +local~11GBdevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankingsGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingPaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing (arXiv:2606.00188v1)
83FLUX.1 Kontext [max] Black Forest Labs55±2api $0.080/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)
84Reve Edit Fast Reve55±4*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard dataset
85Qwen-Image Alibaba54±1api $0.025/image +local~13GBreplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetT2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)QC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)GenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)+8
86HiDream-O1-Image-Dev HiDream54±5*comparison onlyUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
87LLaDA-Image-Turbo Ant Group54±3†local~22GBhow to run › LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training RecipesUltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)
88LongCat-Image Meituan53±4api $0.13/image +local~15GBfal.ai ↗QC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)Meituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical report
89Step1X-Edit v1.2 StepFun53±2local~51GBhow to run › Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)stepfun-ai/Step1X-Edit-v1p2 model cardGEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)CREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)
90Kling Image 2.1 Kuaishou53±7*api $0.014/imagekling.ai ↗Qwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
91Imagen 4 Fast Google53±4*comparison onlyRapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboardRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
92Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview Alibaba53±4*api $0.030/imagewww.alibabacloud.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
93MiniMax image-01 MiniMax53±5*api $0.0035/imageplatform.minimax.io ↗Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboard
94Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram52±2api $0.060/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboard
95UniPic 3 Skywork AI52±3*comparison onlyEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
96Imagen 3 (imagen-3.0-generate-002) Google52±2comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)
97FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Black Forest Labs52±2api $0.0011/image +local~2.9GBdevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation (arXiv:2610.09823v1)GEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image Editing
98P-Image Pruna51±2*api $0.0050/imagereplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetRapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings
99Photon Luma AI51±2api $0.019/imagefal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboard
100Recraft V3 Recraft50±2api $0.040/imagewww.recraft.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboard
101FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] Black Forest Labs50±2api $0.040/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportServImage: 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)
102GLM-Image Z.ai50±2api $0.015/image +local~39GBdocs.z.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetQC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)GEditBench v2: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for General Image EditingQwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
103Step1X-Edit v1.2 Preview StepFun50±5*†comparison onlystepfun-ai/Step1X-Edit-v1p2 model card
104Runway Gen-4 Image Runway50±3*api $0.050/imagedocs.dev.runwayml.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
105Lucid Origin Leonardo.Ai49±3*api $0.017/imagereplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard dataset
106Latent Diffusion text2img-large (LDM-KL-8-G, LAION-400M) CompVis48±15*local~7.5GBhow to run › tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
107Kandinsky 3 AI Forever48±11*local~32GBhow to run › REAL: Realism Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation Models for Effective Data Augmentation (arXiv:2502.10663v1)
108Step1X-Edit v1.1 StepFun48±3local~51GBhow to run › stepfun-ai/Step1X-Edit-v1p2 model cardUnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)
109FuseDream (BigGAN 512) FuseDream authors48±15*comparison onlytgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
110VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ) Microsoft48±15*local~4.1GBhow to run › tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
111LAFITE (HPS v2 checkpoint) LAFITE authors48±15*comparison onlytgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
112SeedEdit 3.0 ByteDance Seed48±3comparison onlyLMArena 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 Edits
113Ovis-Image-7B Alibaba (AIDC-AI)48±7*local~12GBhow to run › Faithful, Enriched, and Precise: Benchmarking Natural-Science Illustration Generation by T2I models (FEPBench)
114FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Black Forest Labs / Krea47±3api $0.025/image +local~41GBreplicate.com ↗ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World TasksGenExam leaderboard (OpenGVLab/GenExam README, relaxed score)Knowledge Visualization: A Benchmark and Method for Knowledge-Intensive Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv:2604.22302v1)
115MetaQuery-XL Meta / NYU47±6*comparison onlyWISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
116HiDream-I1-Full HiDream47±2api $0.050/image +local~76GBfal.ai ↗GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)HiDream-ai/HiDream-O1-Image repository README results
117GLIDE (filtered) OpenAI47±15*comparison onlytgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
118Ideogram 2.0 Ideogram46±2api $0.080/imagereplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)
119Infinity-8B ByteDance (FoundationVision)46±5*comparison onlyMMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)
120FLUX1.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs46±2api $0.040/imagedocs.bfl.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboardServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)
121Midjourney V6 Midjourney45±7*comparison onlyKwai-Kolors/Kolors repository README, human assessment
122Gemini 2.0 Flash Image Generation (preview) Google45±2comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)BAAI — OmniGen2 technical report
123Show-o2 1.5B Show Lab, NUS45±5*†comparison onlyShow Lab Show-o2 paper (arXiv:2506.15564v3), GenEval and DPG-Bench tables (own models)
124DeepGen 1.0 DeepGen Team45±3comparison onlyEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingChartSync: A Benchmark for Visuo-Logical Cascading Chart Editing (arXiv:2607.10301v1)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
125DALL·E 3 OpenAI44±1comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetMMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)Kandinsky 3.0 — original human comparisons+4
126FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] Black Forest Labs44±1api $0.025/image +local~21GBreplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingMeituan LongCat — LongCat-Image technical reportHP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing (arXiv:2604.19406v1)UnicEdit-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 Editing+7
127FLUX.1 [dev] Black Forest Labs44±1api $0.025/image +local~7.7GBreplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetT2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)QC-T2I-Bench: Scalable Question-Centric Text-to-Image Evaluation (Reliable Ranking, Fine-Grained Diagnosis, and Cost-Aware Routing)TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)+5
128UniPic2-SD3.5M-Kontext-2B Skywork AI44±6*comparison onlyWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)
129UNO ByteDance43±4*local~16GBhow to run › ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World TasksBAAI — OmniGen2 technical report
130ChronoEdit-14B NVIDIA43±3*local~34GBhow to run › Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
131Lumina-Image 2.0 Alpha-VLLM (Shanghai AI Lab)43±4*api $0.075/image +local~13GBfal.ai ↗TIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)
132BLIP3o-NEXT-GRPO-Text-3B Salesforce Research42±3*comparison onlyGenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)
133BAGEL ByteDance Seed42±1api $0.10/image +local~12GBfal.ai ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingTIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks+14
134Midjourney V6.1 Midjourney42±4*comparison onlyEvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)
135FLUX.1 [schnell] Black Forest Labs42±2api $0.0030/image +local~7.7GBreplicate.com ↗T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)Rapidata/Face_Generation_Benchmark (Human Face Generation Alignment) published dataset-card leaderboardVerifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
136OmniGen2 BAAI42±2api $0.15/image +local~17GBfal.ai ↗Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World TasksHP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing (arXiv:2604.19406v1)UnicEdit-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 EditingWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)+6
137Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI42±1api $0.065/image +local~5.4GBreplicate.com ↗LMArena leaderboard datasetGenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)MMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation (arXiv:2505.17613v2)Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1ServImage: An Image Generation and Editing Benchmark from Real-world Commercial Imaging Services (arXiv:2604.24023v2)+4
138Show-o2 7B Show Lab, NUS42±3local~23GBhow to run › GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)Show Lab Show-o2 paper (arXiv:2506.15564v3), GenEval and DPG-Bench tables (own models)Beyond Accuracy: Benchmarking Cross-Task Consistency in Unified Multimodal Models (XTC-Bench, arXiv:2604.25072v1)
139Playground v2 (1024px aesthetic) Playground41±4*local~4.9GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)
140Playground v2.5 Playground41±2local~8.8GBhow to run › T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)Kwai-Kolors/Kolors repository README, human assessment+1
141Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Stability AI41±3api $0.035/image +local~20GBplatform.stability.ai ↗T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)Verifiable Visual Rewards Transfer from Synthetic Scenes to Natural Prompts (VVRBench), arXiv:2609.35641v1WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
142CogView4-6B Z.ai41±6*comparison onlyMMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)HPSv3 repository README, image generation benchmark table (MizzenAI/HPSv3)
143Midjourney V7 Midjourney40±3*comparison onlyTIIF-Bench: How Does Your T2I Model Follow Your Instructions? (arXiv v3)
144UniWorld-V1 PKU-YuanGroup40±2comparison onlyEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingHP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing (arXiv:2604.19406v1)UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsWISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)CREval: An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under Complex Instructions (arXiv:2603.26174v1)ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
145UniPic2-Metaquery-9B Skywork AI40±6*comparison onlyWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
146Show-o2 1.5B-HQ Show Lab, NUS40±3*local~7.9GBhow to run › GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)
147Skywork UniPic 1.5B Skywork AI40±6*comparison onlyWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)
148Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 (base) Stability AI40±6*local~4.9GBhow to run › WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
149Stable Diffusion 3 Medium Stability AI40±2api $0.035/image +local~11GBfal.ai ↗T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)HPSv3 repository README, image generation benchmark table (MizzenAI/HPSv3)
150Kolors Kuaishou (Kolors team)39±3local~22GBhow to run › EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)Kwai-Kolors/Kolors repository README, human assessmentHPSv3 repository README, image generation benchmark table (MizzenAI/HPSv3)
151BLIP3-o 8B Salesforce Research38±3local~41GBhow to run › GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)Beyond Accuracy: Benchmarking Cross-Task Consistency in Unified Multimodal Models (XTC-Bench, arXiv:2604.25072v1)
152Stable Cascade Stability AI38±4*local~13GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)
153Janus-Pro-7B DeepSeek38±2api $0.0020/image +local~18GBdeepinfra.com ↗T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)DeepSeek-AI — Janus-Pro technical reportMMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)Beyond Accuracy: Benchmarking Cross-Task Consistency in Unified Multimodal Models (XTC-Bench, arXiv:2604.25072v1)
154NextStep-1-Large-Edit StepFun37±3comparison onlyEdit-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 EditsWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)
155Step1X-Edit v1.0 StepFun37±4*comparison onlyLMArena leaderboard datasetEdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)
156SDXL-Lightning (4-step UNet) ByteDance37±3*local~4.9GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (arXiv:2402.13929v3)
157Kandinsky 2.2 AI Forever37±5*†local~12GBhow to run › Kandinsky 3.0 — original human comparisons
158Janus-Pro-1B DeepSeek36±4api $0.0005/image +local~5.5GBdeepinfra.com ↗DeepSeek-AI — Janus-Pro technical reportWISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
159Show-o (show-o-demo-512) Show Lab, NUS36±3*local~7.9GBhow to run › T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)
160DALL·E 2 OpenAI36±3comparison onlyImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv 2304.05977v4)ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models (arXiv v4)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
161SSD-1B Segmind36±4*local~3.3GBhow to run › EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)
162JanusFlow-1.3B DeepSeek36±6*comparison onlyMMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)
163PixArt-α (PixArt-XL-2-1024-MS) PixArt (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab et al.)36±2local~14GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
164Emu3 BAAI36±2local~22GBhow to run › T2I-ReasonBench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Text-to-Image Generation (Findings of ACL 2026)GenExam: A Multidisciplinary Text-to-Image Exam (arXiv v5)MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning (arXiv:2506.10963v2)WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
165Ovis-U1-3B Alibaba (AIDC-AI)35±6*comparison onlyWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
166IF-XL DeepFloyd35±2local~29GBhow to run › EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models (arXiv v4)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)+1
167Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI34±1api $0.0019/image +local~4.9GBwww.together.ai ↗GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World TasksConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)+8
168LCM-SDXL latent-consistency34±3local~8.9GBhow to run › EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (arXiv:2402.13929v3)
169OmniGen (v1) BAAI34±4local~9GBhow to run › WEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)BAAI — OmniGen2 technical report
170SDXL-Turbo Stability AI34±2local~4.9GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (arXiv:2402.13929v3)
171IF-L DeepFloyd33±3local~14GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)
172Lumina-DiMOO Alpha-VLLM (Shanghai AI Lab)32±4*local~39GBhow to run › Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
173UltraEdit (SD3, with mask) Peking University / BIGAI (UltraEdit)32±7*comparison onlyEdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)
174VILA-U 7B (256px) MIT Han Lab / NVIDIA32±7*local~20GBhow to run › WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
175LCM-SSD-1B latent-consistency32±4*local~3.6GBhow to run › EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)
176Janus-1.3B DeepSeek32±4local~5.5GBhow to run › DeepSeek-AI — Janus-Pro technical reportWISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv v4)
177IF-M DeepFloyd31±3local~14GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)
178Dreamlike Photoreal 2.0 Dreamlike.art30±3local~2.1GBhow to run › EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
179AnyEdit (AnySD) Zhejiang University / NUS (AnyEdit)30±4comparison onlyEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingWEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)
180Stable Diffusion v2.1 Stability AI29±2comparison onlyEvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models (GeckoNum, arXiv v3)+1
181Stable Diffusion v2.0 Stability AI29±3comparison onlyGenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
182Versatile Diffusion v1.0 SHI Labs29±4local~7.2GBhow to run › ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv 2304.05977v4)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
183DALL·E Mega (minDALL-E) DALL·E Mini / minDALL-E29±4local~8GBhow to run › TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
184MagicBrush (InstructPix2Pix fine-tune, jul7) Ohio State University (OSU NLP)29±7*comparison onlyEdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)
185Openjourney PromptHero28±2local~2.1GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models (arXiv v4)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
186Stable Diffusion v1.4 CompVis27±2local~2.1GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty (arXiv v1)ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv 2304.05977v4)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table
187Stable Diffusion v1.3 CompVis27±4*local~2.1GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1
188Stable Diffusion v1.1 CompVis26±3local~2.1GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)REAL: Realism Evaluation of Text-to-Image Generation Models for Effective Data Augmentation (arXiv:2502.10663v1)
189Stable Diffusion v1.2 CompVis26±3*local~2.1GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)
190HiDream-E1.1 HiDream26±11*comparison onlyViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)
191Stable Diffusion v1.5 Stability AI26±2local~2.1GBhow to run › GenEval authors' results: djghosh13/geneval README and arXiv 2310.11513v1EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tuning Multimodal LLMs with Human-Aligned Data for Evaluating Text-to-Image Models (arXiv:2406.16562v3)EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation (arXiv v2)TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models (GeckoNum, arXiv v3)+1
192OneCAT-3B Meituan (OneCAT team)24±5*local~25GBhow to run › Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
193LCM Dreamshaper v7 SimianLuo (LCM authors)23±4*local~1.7GBhow to run › GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models (arXiv v3)
194InstructPix2Pix UC Berkeley (Brooks, Holynski, Efros)19±3local~2.6GBhow to run › UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched EditsEdit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward ModelingImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World TasksEdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing (arXiv:2509.13399v3)MultiTextEdit: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Degradation in Text-in-Image Editing (arXiv:2605.08163v2), Table 3PaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing (arXiv:2606.00188v1)
195X-LXMERT UNC Chapel Hill17±4*comparison onlyTIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)
196AttnGAN (COCO) Microsoft / Rutgers / Duke16±4*comparison onlyTIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (arXiv v3)
197CogView2 THUDM1±4local~14GBhow to run › ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation (arXiv 2304.05977v4)HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models (arXiv 2311.04287v1)tgxs002/HPSv2 repository README, HPS v2 benchmark table

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