Cheapest AI image generation.
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FLUX.1 [schnell] at DeepInfra leads 20 models at 0.05¢ per image, checked .
Top 10
all image models- 1
FLUX.1 [schnell]
DeepInfra · text to image · open weights · 2 providers0.05¢per image - 2
FLUX.1 [dev]
DeepInfra · text to image · open weights · 2 providers0.9¢per image - 3
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B
Fal · text to image · open weights · 2 providers1¢per image - 4
FLUX.2 [pro]
DeepInfra · text to image · 3 providers1.5¢per image - 5
Qwen Image
Venice · text to image · open weights · 2 providers3¢per image - 6
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image
Google Vertex AI · text to image · 4 providers3.4¢per image - 7
Google: Nano Banana 2.1
Maker's price
Google · text to image · 3 providers3.4¢per image - 8
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Vercel AI Gateway · text to image · 2 providers3.5¢per image - 9
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
Google Vertex AI · text to image · 3 providers3.9¢per image - 10
FLUX1.1 [pro]
Vercel AI Gateway · text to image · 3 providers4¢per image
How we count
Every image model sold by 2 providers or more, at the cheapest price we can hold beside the others. Two providers is the floor that keeps this list from being decided by one catalog's number. 20 models qualify, from 0.05¢ an image. Where a lab prices several variants of one model the same, one of them stands for the rest. Prices are for one 1024 x 1024 image at the model's default steps, standard mode, no upscaling and no editing.
A price below the lab's own is listed only when the provider says why.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
Frequently asked
- What is the cheapest of the image models right now?
- FLUX.1 [schnell] at DeepInfra, 0.05¢ per image, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- Which lab shows up most in this ranking?
- Black Forest Labs trained 5 of the top 10 models here.
- How is this ranked, and how current is it?
- Every row is the cheapest price for that model that we can hold beside the others: the lab's own, a price below it with a published reason, or a price at or above it. A price that buys a different task, or a resolution the lab's own price does not state, or a unit we will not convert without publishing the assumption, is listed on the model's page and not ranked. Prices are read every 3 days from 13 providers' public catalogs, against a typical 4¢ per image. Last refresh: 1 Nov 2026.
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