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HiDream-O1-Image

HiDream's 8B open-weights text-to-image model, with a distilled Dev variant.

HiDream.ai
Open weights
Released 8 May 2026

Where it ranks

C
Image generation
Models · Local · 974 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
C
Image editing
Models · Local · 956 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Facts

Vendor: HiDream.ai
Family: HiDream-O1-Image
Released: 8 May 2026
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: MIT
Parameters: 8.8B
API price: $0.04 per image (API price listed by Artificial Analysis for HiDream-O1-Image: $40 per 1k images; weights free to download)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 19 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)	956	`HiDream-O1-Image` Read from the leaderboard page's embedded data on 2026-10-19	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	974	`HiDream-O1-Image` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 61, 10418 samples; read from the page's embedded data; page shows no last-updated date	19 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,116	`hidream-o1-image` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 47, 66906 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co

Where you can use it

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Earlier versions

HiDream-I1 · Apr 2025

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