Image generators

Leaderboard: mixed register

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 26, 2026; 233 reader votes, 0 set aside from 0 readers who failed a calibration pair.

Generator	Reader rating (95% range)	Votes	Win rate	Photographic Score	Median speed	Price	Failures	Refusals
FLUX 1.1 Pro Black Forest Labs	collecting (13 of 40)	13	14%	-3.57	3.5 s	$0.040	9% of 3071	0% of 3071
FLUX.1 schnell Black Forest Labs	collecting (18 of 40)	18	64%	-3.27	2.2 s	$0.003	8% of 3054	0% of 3054
Ideogram 3.0 Turbo Ideogram	collecting (0 of 40)	0	none yet	-3.15	6.5 s	$0.030	45% of 583	0% of 583
Recraft V3 Recraft	collecting (9 of 40)	9	67%	-2.67	4.5 s	$0.040	8% of 3057	0% of 3057
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	collecting (0 of 40)	0	none yet	-3.10	7 s	$0.080	0% of 376	13% of 376
Stable Image Core Stability AI	collecting (0 of 40)	0	none yet	-3.18	3.9 s	$0.040	0% of 356	13% of 356

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