ERNIE-Image-Turbo

Baidu's 8B open-weights text-to-image model with a distilled Turbo variant that runs on 24 GB consumer GPUs.

Where it ranks

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Image generation
Models · Local · 914 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)

Vendor: Baidu
Family: ERNIE-Image
Released: Apr 2026
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: Apache-2.0
Parameters: 8B
GPU memory to run locally: ~24 GB (Model card: ERNIE-Image-Turbo can run on consumer GPUs with 24 GB VRAM.)
API price: $0.01 per image (API price listed by Artificial Analysis for ERNIE Image Turbo: $10.49 per 1k images; weights free to download)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	914	`ERNIE Image Turbo` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 77, 10327 samples; read from the page's embedded data; page shows no last-updated date; non-Turbo ERNIE Image scores 907	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai