MODEL TOOL
Posters, illustration, product shots — ranked against LMArena's text-to-image and edit boards.
1 · What are you doing?
2 · Budget tier
Recommended for · Image generation · Flagship
Top of both boards: best composition, materials and text rendering.
gpt-image-2.5（Sunburst / Flare）API per-image; included in ChatGPT plans
+ New leader on both boards — another step up in instruction-following and text rendering
− Vote count still building; conservative style
gpt-image-2API per-image; included in ChatGPT plans
+ First-tier instruction-following and text layout
− Slow; conservative style
Nano Banana Pro（Gemini 3 Pro Image）In Gemini subs; API ~$0.13/image
+ Strong edit consistency; accurate knowledge-based visuals
− Ranks lower on pure text-to-image
Seedream 5.0 Pro（即梦）API ~$0.03/image; free quota
+ Best for Chinese scenes and e-commerce; cheap
− Very complex compositions trail the leader
Three tiers: flagship for quality-critical work, balanced for daily production, budget for bulk and experiments. Names track the current mainstream options — the landscape moves fast, so treat the tier logic (not the exact model list) as the durable part.
Rankings and prices checked — leaderboards move weekly; always confirm pricing on the official site before committing.
Sources: Artificial Analysis · LMArena · Crafiq 3D · Taxon3D