Text to Image AI Model & Provider Leaderboard
Analysis and comparison of Text to Image generation models & API providers. Artificial Analysis has analyzed text to image models and hosting providers across quality, generation time, and price. For further details, see our methodology page.
Text to image models & providers compared: Playground v2.5, Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, SDXL Lightning, Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion 2.1, Amazon Titan G1 (Standard), DALLE 2, DALLE 3 HD, DALLE 3, Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard), Playground v3 (beta), Ideogram v2, FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], Ideogram v2 Turbo, Ideogram v1, FLUX1.1 [pro], Recraft 20B, FLUX.1 [schnell], Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, and Recraft V3.
Highlights
Summary Analysis
Quality vs. Price
Quality vs. Generation Time
Generation Time vs. Price
Quality
Quality ELO (Image Arena)
Arena Win Rate
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Generation Time
Generation Time
Generation Time, Variance
Generation Time, Over Time
Price
Price
Provider | Model | Footnotes | Model Quality ELO | Median Generation Time (s) | Price per 1k Images (USD) | Further Details |
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Recraft AI | Recraft V3 | 1163 | 7.8 | $ | ||
Black Forest Labs | FLUX1.1 [pro] | 1129 | 4.2 | $40.00 | ||
fal.ai | FLUX1.1 [pro] | 1129 | 3.0 | $40.00 | ||
Replicate | FLUX1.1 [pro] | 1129 | 2.9 | $40.00 | ||
Together.ai | FLUX1.1 [pro] | 1129 | 4.5 | $40.00 | ||
Replicate | FLUX.1 [pro] | 1110 | 8.7 | $55.00 | ||
Together.ai | FLUX.1 [pro] | 1110 | 9.1 | $50.00 | ||
fal.ai | FLUX.1 [pro] | 1110 | 8.9 | $50.00 | ||
Ideogram | Ideogram v2 | 1088 | 20.4 | $80.00 | ||
Replicate | FLUX.1 [dev] | 1088 | 3.2 | $25.00 | ||
fal.ai | FLUX.1 [dev] | 1088 | 3.1 | $25.00 | ||
Ideogram | Ideogram v2 Turbo | 1082 | 11.9 | $50.00 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo | 1081 | 7.8 | $40.00 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | 1077 | 9.0 | $65.00 | ||
fal.ai | Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | 1077 | 4.9 | $65.00 | ||
Ideogram | Ideogram v1 | 1069 | 16.0 | $60.00 | ||
Together.ai | FLUX.1 [schnell] | 1047 | 1.1 | $3.00 | ||
Replicate | FLUX.1 [schnell] | 1047 | 1.0 | $3.00 | ||
fal.ai | FLUX.1 [schnell] | 1047 | 0.7 | $3.00 | ||
Playground AI | Playground v3 (beta) | 1044 | 17.1 | $0.70 | ||
Recraft AI | Recraft 20B | 1020 | 8.1 | $ | ||
fal.ai | Playground v2.5 | 998 | 4.4 | $5.13 | ||
Replicate | Playground v2.5 | 998 | 7.4 | $10.67 | ||
Fireworks | Playground v2.5 | 998 | 1.6 | $6.50 | ||
Playground AI | Playground v2.5 | 998 | 6.4 | $0.70 | ||
OpenAI | DALLE 3 HD | 984 | 17.1 | $80.00 | ||
OpenAI | DALLE 3 | 970 | 13.4 | $40.00 | ||
fal.ai | Stable Diffusion 3 Medium | 943 | 2.4 | $35.00 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion 3 Medium | 943 | 5.5 | $35.00 | ||
Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard) | 941 | 11.8 | $10.00 | ||
Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Titan G1 (Standard) | 920 | 10.7 | $10.00 | ||
fal.ai | SDXL Lightning | 911 | 1.7 | $1.01 | ||
Replicate | SDXL Lightning | 911 | 2.0 | $2.65 | ||
fal.ai | Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 | 887 | 1.5 | $3.50 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 | 887 | 9.2 | $9.04 | ||
Amazon Bedrock | Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 | 887 | 6.1 | $40.00 | ||
Fireworks | Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 | 887 | 1.1 | $3.90 | ||
Together.ai | Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 | 887 | 3.8 | $20.00 | ||
OpenAI | DALLE 2 | 746 | 12.5 | $20.00 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion 2.1 | 742 | 6.0 | $6.71 | ||
Replicate | Stable Diffusion 1.5 | 633 | 73.5 | $8.56 |