Text to Image Models

Black Forest Labs' flagship text-to-image model. Faster generation than FLUX.1 Pro at higher prompt adherence, with strong photorealism and reliable spatial composition. Runs as a hosted Replicate model.

FLUX 1.1 Pro in Ultra mode by Black Forest Labs. Generates up to 4 megapixel images with a raw mode for less processed, more natural-looking photography. Best FLUX option when output resolution and fine detail matter.

Google's Imagen 4. Text-to-image with strong photorealism and improved typography support.

Google DeepMind's Imagen 4 text-to-image model, hosted on Replicate. Sharp detail, accurate text rendering, and strong prompt adherence across photographic and illustrated styles. Outputs up to 2K resolution.

Premium Imagen 4 tier. Highest fidelity, prompt adherence and typography quality from Google.

Ideogram's flagship text-to-image model with industry-leading text rendering and prompt adherence.

The highest-quality tier of Ideogram v3. Improved photorealism and prompt adherence over v2 while keeping Ideogram's best-in-class text rendering. Supports style references and inline text layout.

Recraft's text-to-image model that topped the Hugging Face text-to-image arena at release. Strong long-text rendering, brand-style consistency, and precise control over image dimensions and color palettes.

Stability AI's SDXL 1.0 with the optional refiner. The 3.5B base plus 6.6B ensemble UNet that became the default open image model before FLUX. Good for fine-tuning and LoRAs, broad community support.

fal.ai's fully open-source 6.8B flow-based text-to-image model. Up to 1536x1536 resolution.

The open-weight 12B rectified-flow transformer from Black Forest Labs. Close to FLUX Pro quality with a guidance-distilled checkpoint released under a non-commercial license. The most widely fine-tuned base in the FLUX family.

The fastest FLUX model from Black Forest Labs, distilled to produce images in 1 to 4 steps. Apache 2.0 licensed for commercial use. Built for high-volume generation and real-time previews.

Ideogram's fast text-to-image variant. Strong typography and logo rendering at low latency.

Ideogram's text-to-image model known for accurate in-image text and typography. Handles posters, logos, and signage where other models garble lettering. Supports magic prompt expansion and multiple aspect ratios.

Ideogram's fast v3 model, the fastest and cheapest tier of the v3 family. Known for accurate in-image text rendering and reliable typography, which most diffusion models still get wrong. Hosted API only.

Kuaishou's bilingual (CN/EN) latent diffusion text-to-image model with strong text rendering.

Playground AI's diffusion model tuned for aesthetics. SDXL-based architecture trained on the EDM formulation, rated by users as more visually pleasing than SDXL in their study. Strong on vivid color and contrast.

Playground's text-to-image model focused on graphic design aesthetics and embedded typography.

Recraft's high-prompt-adherence raster image model. Strong layout control and brand-style consistency.

Recraft's v3 variant that outputs vector SVG instead of raster pixels. Generates clean, editable logos, icons and illustrations that scale without quality loss, which is unusual among image models. Hosted API only.

Recraft V4 SVG turns a text prompt into production-ready SVG vector art with clean geometry and structured, editable layers. Newer generation than V3 with improved design quality on logos, icons and flat illustration. Returns true vector paths, not a traced bitmap.

Stability AI's 8B MMDiT-based flagship. Open weights at 1MP with improved typography and prompt adherence over SDXL. The largest model in the SD 3.5 release line.

Stability AI's 8B-parameter flagship SD3.5 model. Strong prompt adherence and aesthetic quality.

Distilled, 4-step version of SD 3.5 Large from Stability AI. Keeps most of the large model's quality and text rendering at a fraction of the inference time. Open weights under the Stability Community License.

Distilled 4-step variant of SD3.5 Large. 8B params, ~4x faster inference at competitive quality.

Stability AI's 2.5B-parameter SD3.5 with strong quality/speed trade-off. Consumer-GPU friendly.