AI model rankings by price, context and measured speed
Pick a dimension. Each ranking uses only models you can run right now and real data: live prices, catalog context windows and run times measured on Railwail jobs.
· Run times from Railwail jobs, last 90 days
Lowest price per imageTop 25
Image generation models by labs with a fixed price per image.
- 01FLUX.1 [schnell]Black Forest Labs0,0036 USD/imagine
- 02P ImagePruna AI0,0060 USD/imagine
- 03Image 01MiniMax0,012 USD/imagine
- 03Photon FlashLuma AI0,012 USD/imagine
- 050,024 USD/imagine
- 05Hunyuan Image 2.1Tencent0,024 USD/imagine
- 05Qwen Image 2512Alibaba (Qwen)0,024 USD/imagine
- 08Recraft 20BRecraft0,0264 USD/imagine
- 09Flux Krea DevBlack Forest Labs0,030 USD/imagine
- 09FLUX.1 [dev]Black Forest Labs0,030 USD/imagine
- 09Ideogram V2A TurboIdeogram0,030 USD/imagine
- 09Qwen ImageAlibaba (Qwen)0,030 USD/imagine
- 13Ideogram v3 TurboIdeogram0,036 USD/imagine
- 13PhotonLuma AI0,036 USD/imagine
- 13Qwen Image 3Alibaba (Qwen)0,036 USD/imagine
- 13Seedream 4ByteDance0,036 USD/imagine
- 13Wan 2.7 ImageAlibaba (Wan)0,036 USD/imagine
- 13Wan 2.7 Image ProAlibaba (Wan)0,036 USD/imagine
- 19Flux DevBlack Forest Labs0,0384 USD/imagine
- 20Nano Banana 2 LiteGoogle DeepMind0,0408 USD/imagine
- 21Qwen Image 2Alibaba (Qwen)0,042 USD/imagine
- 21Seedream 5 LiteByteDance0,042 USD/imagine
- 21Stable Diffusion 3Stability AI0,042 USD/imagine
- 21Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumStability AI0,042 USD/imagine
- 25Nano BananaGoogle DeepMind0,0468 USD/imagine
How this leaderboard works
Every figure comes from our catalog, our pricing rules, our own job records or, for quality, the public Arena leaderboard. What we cannot source, we leave out.
- What is listed
- Only models you can run right now: active and with a verified price. Left out: 130 catalog entries without a price (they cannot run), 0 removed models and 5 duplicate entries of the same provider model. Legacy models stay listed and link their successor.
- Price
- What one call with the model’s default settings costs on Railwail, from the same pricing rules that bill your runs (1 credit = $0.01). Token models show the price per 1M input and output tokens. Prices marked ≈ are billed by GPU time: the figure is a typical run, the charge follows the real run time.
- Median run time
- Measured on completed Railwail jobs: the median of the newest up to 500 runs in the last 90 days, shown from 5 runs. It includes queueing at the provider. For language models it depends on the answer length, so the LLM board is never sorted by speed. Measured today: 3 models.
- Quality
- Arena scores from the public Arena leaderboard (formerly LMArena, CC BY 4.0), where people compare two anonymous models on the same prompt and vote. A model gets a score only when the arena entry is exactly the model and default setting we run (reviewed list, 56 models today). No score is estimated.
- Context window
- The maximum tokens per request as listed in our catalog. Not re-measured by us.
- Usage
- Runs per model are only shown once they say something: at least 5 models with runs from 3 or more different accounts in 30 days. Until then there is no popularity ranking.
- What we don’t show
- No votes of our own and no estimated scores: our own arena has 0 decided battles and 2 model votes, far too few for a rating. Models the public Arena has not rated in the setting we run show “No Arena rating”.
Source:arena.ai leaderboardDatasetCC BY 4.0
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