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Image generation models

Models that output images, newest first (image quality has no shared benchmark in our sources yet).

Models that output images, newest first (image quality has no shared benchmark in our sources yet). Source: OpenRouter. Variants (reasoning effort, batch) are folded into one row.

#ModelCapabilityReasoningCodingContext$/M
1Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google———66K$0.56
2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google———131K$1.13
3Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google———131K$4.50
4GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenAI———272K$9.75
5Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google———66K$1.13
6Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)Google———66K$4.50
7GPT-5 Image MiniOpenAI———400K$2.38
8GPT-5 ImageOpenAI———400K$10.00
9Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)Google———33K$0.85
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