Model reviews

AI image model reviews

Every model we tested, in overall ranking order. Each review shows its scores by use case, price, speed and sample outputs.

OpenAI

GPT Image 2

GPT Image 2 review: #5/10 for portraits & people, #1/10 for product photos and #2/10 for social media ads; $0.171/image, 97.0 s median wait.

Google

Nano Banana Pro review: #1/10 for portraits & people, #7/10 for product photos and #1/10 for social media ads; $0.150/image, 21.7 s median wait.

xAI

Grok Imagine 2.0 review: #2/10 for portraits & people, #5/10 for product photos and #4/10 for social media ads; $0.061/image, 63.8 s median wait.

Ideogram

Ideogram V4.5 review: #3/10 for portraits & people, #3/10 for product photos and #6/10 for social media ads; $0.062/image, 9.5 s median wait.

ByteDance

Seedream 5.0 Pro review: #4/10 for portraits & people, #6/10 for product photos and #5/10 for social media ads; $0.099/image, 43.9 s median wait.

Alibaba

Qwen Image 3 review: #6/10 for portraits & people, #2/10 for product photos and #7/10 for social media ads; $0.041/image, 24.7 s median wait.

Recraft

Recraft V4.1 review: #8/10 for portraits & people, #8/10 for product photos and #3/10 for social media ads; $0.035/image, 11.4 s median wait.

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 [pro] review: #9/10 for portraits & people, #4/10 for product photos and #9/10 for social media ads; $0.030/image, 10.5 s median wait.

Krea

Krea 2 Turbo review: #7/10 for portraits & people, #9/10 for product photos and #8/10 for social media ads; $0.0077/image, 3.0 s median wait.

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 [dev] review: #10/10 for portraits & people, #10/10 for product photos and #10/10 for social media ads; $0.012/image, 7.9 s median wait.