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Luma Photon Quality, Generation Time & Price Analysis

Luma LabsLuma Labs
Family Luma Labs
ELO 1063.38

Analysis of the Luma Photon model by Luma Labs and comparison to other image models across key metrics including quality, generation time, and price.

For further details, see our methodology page.

Artificial Analysis Image Arena Quality ELO

ELO score in Artificial Analysis Image Arena (relative metric of image generation quality), Higher is better

Relative ELO score of the models as determined by millions of responses from users in Artificial Analysis' Image Arena.

API Generation Time

Generation time: Seconds to generate 1 image, Lower is better

Median time the provider takes to generate an image over the past 14 days of measurements. This includes downloading the image from the provider where a URL is provided rather than an image response.

API Price

Price: USD per 1000 image generations, Lower is better

Price per 1k images generated by the model. For detail on how we calculate price per image for providers price based on inference time or steps, see our methodology page.

Detailed Analysis

Quality vs. API Price

ELO score in Artificial Analysis Image Arena (relative metric of image generation quality), Price: USD per 1000 image generations
Most attractive quadrant
Alibaba Cloud
Black Forest Labs
BytePlus
fal.ai
Google
OpenAI
Prodia
Replicate
xAI

Relative ELO score of the models as determined by millions of responses from users in Artificial Analysis' Image Arena.

Price per 1k images generated by the model. For detail on how we calculate price per image for providers price based on inference time or steps, see our methodology page.

Quality vs. API Generation Time

ELO score in Artificial Analysis Image Arena (relative metric of image generation quality), Generation time: Seconds to generate 1 image
Most attractive quadrant
Alibaba Cloud
Black Forest Labs
BytePlus
fal.ai
Google
OpenAI
Prodia
Replicate
xAI

Relative ELO score of the models as determined by millions of responses from users in Artificial Analysis' Image Arena.

Median time the provider takes to generate an image over the past 14 days of measurements. This includes downloading the image from the provider where a URL is provided rather than an image response.

API Generation Time vs. API Price

Generation time: Seconds to generate 1 image, Price: USD per 1000 image generations
Most attractive quadrant
Alibaba Cloud
Black Forest Labs
BytePlus
fal.ai
Google
OpenAI
Prodia
Replicate
xAI

Median time the provider takes to generate an image over the past 14 days of measurements. This includes downloading the image from the provider where a URL is provided rather than an image response.

Price per 1k images generated by the model. For detail on how we calculate price per image for providers price based on inference time or steps, see our methodology page.

Speed Analysis

API Generation Time, Variance

Generation time: Seconds to generate 1 image, Results by percentile, Lower is better
Median; other points represent Min, 25th, 75th percentiles and Max respectively

Median time the provider takes to generate an image over the past 14 days of measurements. This includes downloading the image from the provider where a URL is provided rather than an image response.

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API Generation Time, Over Time

Generation time: Seconds to generate 1 image, Lower is better
FLUX.1 [schnell] (fast), Prodia
FLUX.1 Kontext [max], Black Forest Labs
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo, fal.ai
FLUX.2 [dev], fal.ai
FLUX.2 [max], Black Forest Labs
GPT Image 1.5, OpenAI
grok-imagine-image, xAI
Imagen 4 Ultra, Google
Luma Photon, fal.ai
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), Google
Qwen Image Plus 2601, Alibaba Cloud
Seedream 4.0, BytePlus
Seedream 4.5, BytePlus
Z-Image Turbo, fal.ai
Z-Image Turbo, Replicate

Median time the provider takes to generate an image over the past 14 days of measurements. This includes downloading the image from the provider where a URL is provided rather than an image response.

Median measurement per day, based on 8 measurements each day at different times. Labels represent start of week's measurements.