Best AI Portrait Generator: Text-to-Image Leaderboard

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Sep 24, 2026

1,615,018 votes

81 models

	Rank Spread
1	12	gpt-image-2.5-sunburst OpenAI · Proprietary	1469±17	1,729
2	13	gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI · Proprietary	1452±18	1,598
3	23	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1431±8	16,950
4	46	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1358±23	750
5	46	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1354±11	3,506
6	47	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1347±17	1,401
7	68	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1320±15	1,663
8	711	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1303±9	6,655
9	811	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1296±7	17,128
10	812	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1284±13	2,376
11	811	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1284±11	3,258
12	1116	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1265±7	10,649
13	1217	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1262±6	32,378
14	1217	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1259±5	38,014
15	1217	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1257±7	11,838
16	1218	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1249±19	916
17	1318	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1246±10	3,734
18	1619	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1237±8	21,897
19	1821	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1218±11	2,590
20	1921	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1209±8	11,497
21	1923	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1200±7	11,063
22	2225	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1186±5	59,280
23	2128	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1186±11	2,671
24	2232	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1176±8	8,254
25	2332	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1174±6	22,501
26	2145	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1168±25	519
27	2433	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1168±5	63,891
28	2434	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1168±6	111,752
29	2433	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1167±4	237,959
30	2337	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1165±10	4,030
31	2337	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1164±11	3,119
32	2638	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1158±6	28,183
33	2943	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1155±6	26,519
34	2945	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1151±7	7,850
35	2945	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1148±8	9,643
36	2453	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1147±23	611
37	3245	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1145±5	146,810
38	3247	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1145±6	35,653
39	3247	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1145±6	44,823
40	3347	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1144±5	45,961
41	3347	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1143±6	21,683
42	3249	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1142±9	5,635
43	3149	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1142±11	3,655
44	3249	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1141±8	8,938
45	2855	recraft-v4.1-flash Recraft · Proprietary	1139±23	599
46	3750	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1135±5	43,353
47	3752	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1133±6	17,467
48	4154	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1129±8	7,189
49	4154	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1126±8	7,297
50	4454	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1124±6	28,644
51	4554	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1124±5	49,719
52	4555	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1121±8	9,567
53	4657	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1116±10	3,608
54	4756	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1116±5	66,029
55	5157	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1112±6	35,972
56	5359	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1105±7	12,548
57	5461	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1101±9	10,451
58	5661	p-image Proprietary	1098±6	25,215
59	5662	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1094±6	20,387
60	5762	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1092±6	34,779
61	5762	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1092±5	61,513
62	5964	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1085±6	19,689
63	6264	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1077±6	88,801
64	6264	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1077±5	28,685
65	6565	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1065±6	96,453
66	6670	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1054±6	34,890
67	6670	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1052±5	201,862
68	6671	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1050±6	29,298
69	6671	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1043±7	14,171
70	6671	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1042±6	74,166
71	6871	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	1039±6	44,305
72	7274	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1024±6	32,382
73	7275	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1020±7	13,070
74	7275	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	1019±7	14,547
75	7376	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	999±17	1,093
76	7576	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	999±7	10,614
77	7777	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	961±6	75,753
78	7879	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	944±6	64,291
79	7880	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	941±9	5,704
80	7981	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	926±11	3,499
81	8081	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	925±7	60,356

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