Best AI Image Generation Models
6 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.
All uses💬 Chat 285🖼️ Image 54💻 Code 26🎬 Video 22🧮 Reasoning 19🔍 Search 19👁️ Vision 12🎙️ Audio 4🛡️ Safety 2
All orgsopenai 74qwen 50google 47anthropic 24mistralai 20deepseek 15z-ai 14nvidia 10xai 10meta-llama 10minimax 9moonshotai 8
| # | Model | Use | Image Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gpt-image-2 (medium)openai | 🖼️ Image | 1381 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityopenai | 🖼️ Image | 1239 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | GPT-5 Imageopenai | 🖼️ Image | — | $10.00 / $10.00 | 400K | — | — | 10mo |
| 4 | chatgpt-image-latest-high-fidelity (20251216)openai | 🖼️ Image | — | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | GPT-5.4 Image 2openai | 🖼️ Image | — | $8.00 / $15.00 | 272K | — | — | 4mo |
| 6 | GPT-5 Image Miniopenai | 🖼️ Image | — | $2.50 / $2.00 | 400K | — | — | 10mo |
Elo: LMArena per-category arenas (CC-BY) — image/video/search models are ranked by their own arena, not text. Pricing: OpenRouter/LiteLLM. Use-case labels are auto-classified — suggest fixes on any model page. Methodology.