Image

Create, edit, upscale and understand images; logos and vector art. 5 tasks, 333 listed options.

Tier: how close to the best result on the task's main public benchmark
Outlined: a tool inherits the tier of the best model it offers
No public result yet
Cloud · Local: runs on your own hardware

Image generation

Create images from text and reference pictures.

Best overallSGPT Image 2.5
Best valueAMuse Image
Best free startSChatGPT
Best local (≤24 GB GPU)CFLUX.2 [dev]

Models

Cloud

GPT Image 2.5OpenAI · $0.21/image$A

Nano Banana 2.1Google · $0.03/image$A

Grok Imagine Image 2.0xAI · $0.04/image A

MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft AI · $0.04/image A

Muse ImageMeta · $0.01/image$B

MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMicrosoft AI · $0.02/image B

FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs · $0.05/image B

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google · $0.13/image B

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google · $0.03/image B

Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed · $0.09/image B

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba (Qwen) · $0.04/image C

Krea 2Krea · $0.03/image C

Recraft V4.1Recraft · $0.04/image C Uni-1.1Luma AI · $0.04/image C

Ideogram 4.5Ideogram · $0.1/image C

Seedream 5.0 LiteByteDance Seed · $0.04/image C

P-Image-IdeogramPruna AI · $0.01/image C

Wan 2.7 ImageAlibaba · $0.03/image C

Kling IMAGE 3.0 OmniKuaishou (Kling AI) · $0.03/image –

Midjourney V8.2Midjourney –

Soul 2.0Higgsfield –

Wan2.7-Image-ProAlibaba · $0.07/image

Local

Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba (Qwen) · Open weights C

Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · Open weights C

FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · ~24 GB VRAM$C

Ming-Image-0.1-DesigninclusionAI (Ant Group) · Open weights C

Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageNVIDIA · Open weights C

HunyuanImage 3.0Tencent · Open weights C

HiDream-O1-ImageHiDream.ai · Open weights C

Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Tongyi-MAI) · ~16 GB VRAM$C

ERNIE-Image-TurboBaidu · ~24 GB VRAM C

Krea 2 TurboKrea · Open weights C

GLM-ImageZ.ai · Open weights C

LongCat-ImageMeituan (LongCat) · Open weights C

Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeStability AI · Open weights –

FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs · ~25 GB VRAM –

MOSS-Image-SFTOpenMOSS · Open weights

Apps

Cloud

ChatGPTOpenAI · Free tier · $20/mo S

DreaminaByteDance (CapCut) · Free tier S

getimg.aigetimg.ai · $15/mo S

GlifGlif · Free tier S

HiggsfieldHiggsfield AI S

ImagineArtImagineArt · $5/mo$S

KittlKittl · Free tier S

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo S

Leonardo.AiLeonardo.Ai (Canva) · Free tier · $12/mo S

LovartLovart · Free tier S

MageMage · Free tier · $10/mo S

NightCafeNightCafe Studio · Free tier S

OpenArtOpenArt · Free tier · $14/mo S

PlaygroundPlayground · $15/mo S

ScenarioScenario · Free tier · $15/mo S

SeaArt AISeaArt A

Adobe FireflyAdobe · $9.99/mo A FlowGoogle A

GeminiGoogle · Free tier · $4.99/mo$A

Hailuo AIMiniMax A

LTX StudioLightricks · Free tier · $15/mo A

LumaLuma AI · Free tier · $30/mo A

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo A

PikaPika Labs · Free tier · $10/mo A

RunwayRunway · Free tier · $15/mo A

GrokSpaceXSI (formerly xAI) · Free tier · $8/mo A

Meta AIMeta · Free tier B

DzineDzine · $8.99/mo B

IdeogramIdeogram · Free tier · $20/mo C

RecraftRecraft · Free tier C

CivitaiCivitai · Free tier · $10/mo C

Kling AIKuaishou · Free tier C

ArtbreederArtbreeder · $7.49/mo – Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft · Free tier · $9.99/mo –

MidjourneyMidjourney · $10/mo –

NovelAIAnlatan · $10/mo –

PixAIPixAI · Free tier –

PixlrPixlr (Inmagine) · $2.49/mo –

ViduShengShu Technology · Free tier –

Local

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free$B

WanGP (Wan2GP)deepbeepmeep (community project) · Free$B SD.Nextvladmandic (community) · Free$B

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge NeoHaoming02 (community) · Free$B

AmuseTensorStack · Free$C Easy DiffusionEasy Diffusion (community) · Free C

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free C

Krita AI DiffusionAcly (Interstice) · Free C

Mochi DiffusionMochi Diffusion (community) · Free C

FastSD CPUrupeshs (community) · Free –

SD.Nextvladmandic (community project) · Free –

Draw ThingsDraw Things · Free

Workflow platforms

Cloud

Comfy CloudComfy Org · Free tier · $20/mo S

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo$S

ScenarioScenario · Free tier · $15/mo A

FLORAFLORA · Free tier · $18/mo A

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo A

Figma WeaveFigma · Free tier · $24/mo B

RunComfyRunComfy B

ThinkDiffusionThinkDiffusion

Local

ComfyUIComfy Org · Free$B

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free$C

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free

Runtimes & APIs

Cloud

ReplicateReplicate S

WaveSpeedAIWaveSpeedAI A

Local

DiffusersHugging Face · Free$B

stable-diffusion.cppleejet (community) · Free$

Full image generation map, chart and table →

Image editing

Change an image by describing the edit: remove, replace, restyle, combine.

Best overallSGPT Image 2.5
Best valueAMuse Image
Best free startSChatGPT
Best local (≤24 GB GPU)CFLUX.2 [dev]

Models

Cloud

GPT Image 2.5OpenAI · $0.21/image$A

MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft AI · $0.04/image A

Nano Banana 2.1Google · $0.03/image$A

MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMicrosoft AI · $0.02/image$A

Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed · $0.09/image A

Muse ImageMeta · $0.01/image$A

Grok Imagine Image 2.0xAI · $0.04/image A

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google · $0.13/image B

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba (Qwen) · $0.04/image B

Ideogram 4.5Ideogram · $0.1/image B

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google · $0.03/image B

Wan2.7-Image-ProAlibaba · $0.07/image B

Wan 2.7 ImageAlibaba · $0.03/image C

Step Image Edit 2StepFun · $0.0030/image$C Uni-1.1Luma AI · $0.04/image C

P-Image-EditPruna AI · $0.01/image C

Kling IMAGE 3.0 OmniKuaishou (Kling AI) · $0.03/image –

FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs · $0.05/image –

Midjourney V8.2Midjourney

Local

Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba (Qwen) · Open weights B

HunyuanImage 3.0Tencent · Open weights C

FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · ~24 GB VRAM$C

Qwen-Image-Edit-2511Alibaba (Qwen) · Open weights C

HiDream-O1-ImageHiDream.ai · Open weights C

LongCat-Image-EditMeituan (LongCat) · Open weights C

GLM-ImageZ.ai · Open weights –

Fibo-Edit-1.5Bria AI · Open weights –

FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1FireRedTeam · ~30 GB VRAM –

FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs · ~25 GB VRAM –

JoyAI-Image Edit PlusJD (JD Open Source) · Open weights –

Step1X-Edit v1.2StepFun · Open weights

Apps

Cloud

ChatGPTOpenAI · Free tier · $20/mo S

DreaminaByteDance (CapCut) · Free tier S

getimg.aigetimg.ai · $15/mo S

HiggsfieldHiggsfield AI S

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo$S

Leonardo.AiLeonardo.Ai (Canva) · Free tier · $12/mo S

OpenArtOpenArt · Free tier · $14/mo S

PicsartPicsart · Free tier A

Adobe FireflyAdobe · $9.99/mo A

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe · $20/mo A

GeminiGoogle · Free tier · $4.99/mo$A

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo A

DzineDzine · $8.99/mo A

Meta AIMeta · Free tier A

GrokSpaceXSI (formerly xAI) · Free tier · $8/mo B

IdeogramIdeogram · Free tier · $20/mo B

Adobe LightroomAdobe · Free tier · $12/mo –

CanvaCanva · Free tier · $18/mo –

Claid.aiClaid.ai · Free tier –

ClipdropInitML (Jasper) · Free tier –

EvotoEvoto · Free tier –

FotorFotor · Free tier –

Google PhotosGoogle –

MidjourneyMidjourney · $10/mo –

PhotopeaPhotopea · Free –

PhotoroomPhotoroom · Free tier · $13/mo –

PixelcutPixelcut · Free tier · $8/mo –

PixlrPixlr (Inmagine) · $2.49/mo –

Local

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free$B

WanGP (Wan2GP)deepbeepmeep (community project) · Free$B SD.Nextvladmandic (community) · Free$B

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge NeoHaoming02 (community) · Free$B

AmuseTensorStack · Free$C

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free –

Krita AI DiffusionAcly (Interstice) · Free –

SD.Nextvladmandic (community project) · Free –

Draw ThingsDraw Things · Free –

Luminar NeoSkylum –

VanceAIVanceAI · Free tier · $15/mo

Workflow platforms

Cloud

Comfy CloudComfy Org · Free tier · $20/mo S

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo$A

FLORAFLORA · Free tier · $18/mo A

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo A

Figma WeaveFigma · Free tier · $24/mo

Local

ComfyUIComfy Org · Free$B

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free$C

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free

Runtimes & APIs

Cloud

Nothing tracked yet

Local

DiffusersHugging Face · Free$B

stable-diffusion.cppleejet (community) · Free$

Full image editing map, chart and table →

Upscaling & restoration

Enlarge, sharpen and restore photos.

No public leaderboard covers this task yet, so its options are mapped but not ranked.

Models

Cloud

Bloom 2Topaz Labs · $0.04/image –

Crisp UpscaleRecraft · $0.0040/image –

Crystal UpscalerClarity AI · $0.02/image –

RedefineTopaz Labs –

Wonder 3.5Topaz Labs · $0.01/image

Local

CodeFormer v0.1.0S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Open weights –

LucidFluxHKUST (Guangzhou) W2GenAI Lab · ~28 GB VRAM –

Real-ESRGAN v0.3.0Xintao Wang (Tencent ARC) · Open weights –

SeedVR2 (3B / 7B)ByteDance Seed · ~8 GB VRAM –

SUPIR-v0Q / v0FXPixel Group (Fanghua Yu et al.) · ~12 GB VRAM

Apps

Cloud

Adobe FireflyAdobe · $9.99/mo –

Adobe LightroomAdobe · Free tier · $12/mo –

Adobe PhotoshopAdobe · $20/mo –

Claid.aiClaid.ai · Free tier –

ClipdropInitML (Jasper) · Free tier –

DreaminaByteDance (CapCut) · Free tier –

FotorFotor · Free tier –

Google PhotosGoogle –

IdeogramIdeogram · Free tier · $20/mo –

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo –

Leonardo.AiLeonardo.Ai (Canva) · Free tier · $12/mo –

Let's EnhanceLetsEnhance, Inc. · Free tier · $12/mo –

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo –

PhotoroomPhotoroom · Free tier · $13/mo –

PicsartPicsart · Free tier –

PixelcutPixelcut · Free tier · $8/mo –

PixlrPixlr (Inmagine) · $2.49/mo –

ReminiBending Spoons (AI Creativity S.r.l.)

Local

UpscaylUpscayl · Free –

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free –

Waifu2x-Extension-GUIAaron Feng · Free tier –

Krita AI DiffusionAcly (Interstice) · Free –

Final2xEutropicAI · Free –

SD.Nextvladmandic (community project) · Free –

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free –

Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge NeoHaoming02 (community) · Free –

AmuseTensorStack · Free –

Luminar NeoSkylum –

Topaz GigapixelTopaz Labs · $29/mo –

Topaz PhotoTopaz Labs · $39/mo –

VanceAIVanceAI · Free tier · $15/mo

Workflow platforms

Cloud

Comfy CloudComfy Org · Free tier · $20/mo –

Figma WeaveFigma · Free tier · $24/mo –

KreaKrea · Free tier · $5.25/mo –

Magnific (formerly Freepik)Freepik Company · $20/mo

Local

ComfyUIComfy Org · Free –

InvokeAIInvoke (open-source community) · Free –

chaiNNerchaiNNer-org · Free –

SwarmUImcmonkeyprojects · Free

Full upscaling & restoration map, chart and table →

Image understanding

Describe, read and reason about images, charts and screenshots.

Best overallSQwen3.8-Max
Best valueAMiMo-V2.6-Flash
Best free startSOpenRouter
Best local (≤24 GB GPU)AGemma 4 (31B)

Models

Cloud

S Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba (Qwen) · $3/M tokens$S

GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI · $4/M tokens S

Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · $8/M tokens S Muse Spark 1.3Meta · $2/M tokens$S

Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle · $1.5/M tokens$S

Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic · $20/M tokens S

GPT-6 AstraOpenAI · $20/M tokens S

Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google · $4.5/M tokens A

Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic · $4/M tokens A

Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle · $0.85/M tokens$A

Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba (Qwen) · $0.56/M tokens$A

Grok 4.7xAI · $3/M tokens A

GPT-6 LunaOpenAI · $0.2/M tokens$A

GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai · $1.9/M tokens B

Mistral Large 4 (preview)Mistral AI · $2.06/M tokens

Local

GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · ~185 GB VRAM$A

Gemma 4 (31B)Google DeepMind · ~19 GB VRAM$A

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017DeepSeek · ~320 GB VRAM A

Step 5 PreviewStepFun · ~346 GB VRAM A

MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi · ~178 GB VRAM A

MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi · ~585 GB VRAM A

Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) · ~17 GB VRAM$A

Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B)Meta · ~470 GB VRAM A

Kimi K3Moonshot AI · ~1600 GB VRAM A

MiniMax-M3MiniMax · ~245 GB VRAM A

Ling-3.0-flash-VLinclusionAI · ~73 GB VRAM B

Inkling SmallThinking Machines Lab · ~159 GB VRAM B

Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI · ~75 GB VRAM B

Muse Glimmer 30BMeta · ~19 GB VRAM B

InklingThinking Machines Lab · ~557 GB VRAM B

Llama 4 MaverickMeta · ~230 GB VRAM C

Molmo2-8BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2) · ~6.5 GB VRAM$–

MiniCPM-V 4.7 (35B-A3B)OpenBMB · ~22 GB VRAM –

Moondream 3.1 (9B-A2B)Moondream (M87 Labs) · ~7 GB VRAM –

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BNVIDIA · ~24 GB VRAM –

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12BNVIDIA · ~72 GB VRAM –

Qwen3.8-Flash-NextAlibaba (Qwen) · ~104 GB VRAM

Runtimes & gateways

Cloud

OpenRouterOpenRouter · Free tier S

PerplexityPerplexity AI · Free tier · $20/mo$

Local

OllamaOllama · Free$A

llama.cppggml-org · Free A

vLLMvLLM project · Free A

LocalAIEttore Di Giacinto (mudler) · Free A

SGLangSGLang project (LMSYS) · Free A

LMDeployInternLM (Shanghai AI Laboratory) · Free A

MLX-VLMBlaizzy (open-source project) · Free

Full image understanding map, chart and table →

Vector graphics & logos

Logos, icons and illustrations as editable SVG, or an image traced to vectors.

Best overallSArrow 2 Telos
Best valueSArrow 2 Telos
Best free startBFLORA
Best local (≤24 GB GPU)COlmo 3.1 32B

Models

Cloud

Arrow 2 TelosQuiverAI · $12/M tokens$B

GPT-6 AstraOpenAI · $20/M tokens B

Arrow 2QuiverAI · $8/M tokens$C

Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · $8/M tokens C Muse Spark 1.3Meta · $2/M tokens$C

Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic · $20/M tokens C

Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle · $1.5/M tokens$C

Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google · $4.5/M tokens C

GPT-6 LunaOpenAI · $0.2/M tokens$C

Mistral Large 4 (preview)Mistral AI · $2.06/M tokens C

Recraft V4.1Recraft C

Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba (Qwen) · $0.56/M tokens C

GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai · $1.9/M tokens

Local

Kimi K3Moonshot AI · ~1600 GB VRAM$C

GLM-5.3Z.ai · ~425 GB VRAM$C

GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · ~185 GB VRAM$C

Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI · ~587 GB VRAM C

MiniMax-M3MiniMax · ~245 GB VRAM C

InklingThinking Machines Lab · ~557 GB VRAM C

Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI · ~75 GB VRAM C

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55BNVIDIA · ~321 GB VRAM C

Olmo 3.1 32BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2) · ~20 GB VRAM$C

Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI · ~229 GB VRAM –

InternSVG-8BShanghai AI Laboratory and partner universities (InternSVG team) · Open weights –

OmniSVG1.1_8BOmniSVG (Fudan University and StepFun) · ~26 GB VRAM –

StarVector-8B (im2svg)ServiceNow Research and Mila · Open weights

Apps

Cloud

QuiverAIQuiverAI · $8/mo$B

PaperPaper · Free tier · $16/mo C

KittlKittl · Free tier C

RecraftRecraft · Free tier –

Adobe IllustratorAdobe –

BrandmarkBrandmark –

FigmaFigma · Free tier · $16/mo –

SVGMakerGenWave · Free tier –

Vectorizer.AICedar Lake Ventures, Inc.

Local

Nothing tracked yet

Workflow platforms

Cloud

FLORAFLORA · Free tier · $18/mo$

Local

ComfyUIComfy Org · Free

Runtimes & APIs

Cloud

Nothing tracked yet

Local

VTracerVision Cortex · Free

Full vector graphics & logos map, chart and table →