Preview build — figures marked “✓” or in green are sourced (benchmarks by Artificial Analysis); treat everything else (value scores, “Est.” figures, unmarked prices and changes) as illustrative. Methodology
Image
Image Generation
Text-to-image models priced per generated image.
✓ 8 of 9 list prices sourced (feeds and provider pages) — rows marked “no price” are tracked for quality while a published price is sourced. Methodology
- Models
- 9
- Providers
- 4
- Cheapest (sourced)
- FLUX Schnell
- $0.003/img
- Best est. value
- FLUX Schnell
- fal.ai · 100.0
Price vs Arena Elo
full dots: efficient frontier — benchmarks by Artificial Analysis
| Model | Provider | Price | Arena Elo | Efficient frontier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLUX Schnell | fal.ai | $0.003 / image | 1000 | yes |
| DALL·E 3 | OpenAI | $0.040 / image | 950 | no |
| Imagen 4.0 | $0.040 / image | 1101 | yes | |
| FLUX 1.1 Pro | fal.ai | $0.040 / image | 1088 | no |
| GPT Image 2 | OpenAI | $0.053 / image | 1339 | yes |
| Nano Banana 2 | $0.067 / image | 1262 | no | |
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | fal.ai | $0.068 / image | 1240 | no |
| Nano Banana Pro | $0.134 / image | 1225 | no |
All Image models
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9 of 9 models
30-day month, list prices as shown in the table — excludes caching, batch discounts, volume tiers and taxes. Editing a field re-sorts the table by your projected bill.
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| fal.ai | $0.003 / imageList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $18.00 | 1000Arena Elo 1000 ±0 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 100.0 | ||
| $0.040 / imageList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $240 | 1101Arena Elo 1101 ±8 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 37.4 | |||
| fal.ai | $0.040 / imageList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $240 | 1088Arena Elo 1088 ±7 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 37.1 | ||
| OpenAI | $0.053 / imageList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — medium quality 1024×1024 — OpenAI publishes cost per image directly; low $0.006, high $0.211. OpenAI does NOT publish an output-image-token count for gpt-image-2, so no token conversion is claimed | $318 | 1339Arena Elo 1339 ±7 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 35.2 | ||
| OpenAI | $0.040 / imageList price from LiteLLM — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 — single source | $240 | 950Arena Elo 950 ±8 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 33.7 | ||
| $0.067 / imageList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — converted: 1,120 output image tokens × $60 per 1M = $0.067 per 1024×1024 image (Google publishes both figures) — Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. 0.5K $0.045, 2K $0.101, 4K $0.151; batch halves output to $30/1M ($0.034/image) | $402 | 1262Arena Elo 1262 ±7 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 27.9 | |||
| fal.ai | $0.068 / imageList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — base tier up to 1536×1536 (includes 1024×1024); larger tier $0.135. Read from fal's own metadata API | $405 | 1240Arena Elo 1240 ±9 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 27.2 | ||
| $0.134 / imageList price from provider page — retrieved Aug 2, 2026 — single source — confirmed against the provider's pricing page Aug 2, 2026 — converted: 1,120 output image tokens × $120 per 1M = $0.134 per image, 1K–2K (Google publishes both figures) — Gemini 3 Pro Image. Up to 4K = 2,000 tokens = $0.24; batch halves output to $60/1M ($0.067/image) | $804 | 1225Arena Elo 1225 ±7 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | 9.7 | |||
| Reve | —No published price sourced yet — tracked for quality only | — | 1299Arena Elo 1299 ±11 (95% CI) — Artificial Analysis — retrieved Aug 1, 2026 | — |
Prices are quoted per image. Benchmark scores are Artificial Analysis arena measurements; models without one show “—”. The estimated value score is benchmark-per-dollar relative to this category's median, normalised across the full catalogue.