Tool tag: Text-to-Image

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.

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.