The best AI image generator for each kind of picture

Nano Banana Pro is built for text that survives a client review and for edits that behave like a camera: change one thing and the rest stays. With references it keeps a cast the same across images.

Google names its limits itself: small faces, accurate spelling and fine detail are where it can slip. For a series that has to hold, anchor it with a reference.

FLUX.2 takes up to ten reference images at once, which makes it the model for a product shot that has to match a set of photos. It also takes your own LoRA, so a trained style runs on it.

GPT Image 2.5 reads the whole brief and sets text you do not have to fix. Its quality setting changes both the reasoning depth and the price, and the difference is not small.

Three more, each for one job.

• Seedream 5 for dense layouts and infographics, with text in fourteen languages.
• Ideogram for posters and logos, where size does not change the price.
• Recraft 4.1 Flash for drafts, icons and flat illustration in your own colours, at under a cent per image.