Best AI Image Generation Models
8 models — live arena Elo, API pricing, downloads, and our news-mention tracking. Synced daily. JSON is available at /api/models.
All uses💬 Chat 366🖼️ Image 63💻 Code 26🎬 Video 25🔍 Search 25🧮 Reasoning 19👁️ Vision 14🎙️ Audio 4🛡️ Safety 2
All orgsopenai 91qwen 54google 51anthropic 31mistralai 21deepseek 19z-ai 18xai 13nvidia 12meta-llama 10minimax 10meta 9
| # | Model | Use | Image Elo | In / Out $/M | Context | HF DLs | 7d News | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas)xai | 🖼️ Image | 1334 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)xai | 🖼️ Image | 1301 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801)xai | 🖼️ Image | 1294 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | grok-imagine-image-qualityxai | 🖼️ Image | 1228 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | grok-imagine-imagexai | 🖼️ Image | 1170 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | grok-imagine-image-proxai | 🖼️ Image | 1162 | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | grok-imagine-image-quality (20260519)xai | 🖼️ Image | — | — / — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0xai | 🖼️ Image | — | — / — | — | — | — | — |
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.