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Blind reader pairs on identical prompts, fit as a Bradley-Terry rating on an Elo-style scale (1500 is the mean) with a 95% bootstrap range, refit on every read of this page; ties count half, calibration pairs and the votes of readers who failed one are left out. A generator is ranked in a category after 40 votes there and shows as collecting before. Beside it, measured here: the photographic Score (a different thing, never combined with the rating), median speed, the provider's price, and failures and refusals per attempt. Suite v1, as of October 18, 2026; 175 reader votes, 0 set aside from 0 readers who failed a calibration pair.

Rank	Generator	Reader rating (95% range)	Votes	Win rate	Photographic Score	Median speed	Price	Failures	Refusals
1	Stable Image Core Stability AI	1548 (1504 to 1599)	59	62%	-3.19	3.9 s	$0.040	0% of 356	13% of 356
2	Recraft V3 Recraft	1529 (1473 to 1572)	85	56%	-1.82	none yet	$0.040	100% of 231	0% of 231
3	FLUX 1.1 Pro Black Forest Labs	1515 (1469 to 1572)	78	61%	-2.59	none yet	$0.040	100% of 231	0% of 231
4	Ideogram 3.0 Turbo Ideogram	1486 (1425 to 1535)	51	45%	-1.79	none yet	$0.030	100% of 219	0% of 219
5	FLUX.1 schnell Black Forest Labs	1421 (1366 to 1467)	77	29%	-2.64	none yet	$0.003	100% of 223	0% of 223
	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	collecting (0 of 40)	0	none yet	-3.71	7 s	$0.080	0% of 376	13% of 376

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