Tool tag: Image Generation

Nano Banana

Google's Gemini image family — Pro, 2, 2 Lite and the legacy original. Prices run $0.0336 to $0.24 per image, and the cheapest one outranks the flagship.

Qwen-Image 3.0

Alibaba's third-generation image model, announced July 21, 2026: 4,500-token prompts, 10px text, 12 languages — and a second flagship with no weights.

HiDream-O1-Image

HiDream.ai's 8B pixel-level unified transformer, open-sourced under MIT on May 8, 2026. No VAE, no separate text encoder, and generates up to 2,048x2,048.

Seedream 5.0

ByteDance's unified multimodal image model. Seedream 5.0 Lite (Feb 13, 2026) added deep thinking and web search grounding; a Pro tier followed in June 2026.

Z-Image

Alibaba Tongyi-MAI's 6B open-source image model. Z-Image-Turbo, released November 26, 2025, generates 8-step images inside 16 GB of VRAM under Apache 2.0.

HunyuanImage 3.0

Tencent's 80B-parameter MoE image model, released September 28, 2025. Natively multimodal and autoregressive, under a restricted community license.

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Stability AI's flagship open-weights image model, released October 2024. Three MMDiT variants, still billed as its most powerful image model in September 2026.

FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

Black Forest Labs' FLUX family: open-weight FLUX.1 and FLUX.2 image models plus FLUX 3, an API video model making 20-second clips with native audio.

Ideogram

AI image generator specifically designed for typography and graphic design with industry-leading text rendering accuracy and color palette control.

Leonardo.ai

Comprehensive AI creative suite for generating images, training custom models, and editing with a real-time canvas built for designers and game developers.