Image
Image generation
Text-to-image and image-to-image models.
What it is
Image generation models create pictures from a text prompt, and often from reference images too. Quality varies widely in photorealism, text rendering, prompt adherence and style control.
How pricing works
Usually billed per image at a given resolution, sometimes per megapixel or per GPU-second. We normalise to one ~1024×1024 image at default quality.
We compare everything in one unit: USD per image (≈1 megapixel).
Typical uses
- Marketing and ad creatives
- Product mockups and concept art
- Illustrations and thumbnails
- Game and UI assets
What to compare
- Prompt adherence
- Text-in-image accuracy
- Max resolution
- Generation time
Watch out for
- 'Per image' prices often assume the lowest quality setting.
- Check commercial-use and indemnity terms.
All 11 APIs, cheapest first
Free to browseTick 2 to 4 APIs to compare them side by side.
| API | $ / image | Max resolution | Accurate text in images | Reference images | Quality | Price data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLUX schnell (hosted) fal.ai | $0.003 | 1,440 px (long side) | No | No | 70 | Verified Oct 4, 2026 · aging | |
| MiniMax image-01 MiniMax | $0.0035 | — | — | Yes | – | Verified Oct 6, 2026 | |
| Recraft V4.1 Flash Recraft | $0.007 | — | Yes | Yes | – | Verified Oct 6, 2026 | |
| Leonardo.Ai API (Lucid / Phoenix) Leonardo.Ai | $0.03 | — | Yes | Yes | 85 | Unverified sample | |
| Recraft V4.1 Recraft | $0.035 | — | Yes | Yes | 88 | Verified Oct 6, 2026 | |
| FLUX1.1 [pro] Black Forest Labs | $0.04 | 2,048 px (long side) | Yes | Yes | 90 | Verified Oct 4, 2026 | |
| GPT Image OpenAI | $0.04 | 1,536 px (long side) | Yes | Yes | 91 | Unverified sample | |
| Imagen Google (Gemini / Vertex) | $0.04 | 2,048 px (long side) | Yes | No | 88 | Unverified sample | |
| Recraft V3 (Replicate) Replicate | $0.04 | — | Yes | No | – | Verified Oct 6, 2026 | |
| Freepik Mystic Freepik API | $0.04 | — | — | Yes | – | Unverified sample | |
| Ideogram 3 Ideogram | $0.06 | 2,048 px (long side) | Yes | Yes | 87 | Unverified sample |