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Which model to pick for the task: flagships for finals, fast ones for drafts.
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01Nano Banana: fast images and editing2 min readGoogle's family for creating and editing images. Its strengths: speed, low price and excellent understanding of edit instructions — "replace the background with a sunset", "remove the person on the left".02Flux 2 Pro: maximum quality1 min readThe flagship image model: high detail, realistic textures and — rare among these networks — clean readable text right on the image.03Z-Image: drafts for pennies1 min readThe fastest and cheapest model in the catalog. Quality is below the flagships, but it's perfect for testing composition, tuning prompts and mass-generating ideas.04Seedream 5: ByteDance photorealism1 min readA family of image models from the makers of TikTok. Their strength is photorealism and precise prompt following.05GPT Image 2: understands complex requests1 min readOpenAI's image model. Its strength is reading a long, tangled prompt in full without losing details: "the boy on the left holds a red balloon, a dog stands on the right, a bridge in the background".06Imagen 4: Google photorealism1 min readGoogle's image models. Calm, natural photorealism with no plastic look: skin, fabric and greenery come out real.07Ideogram V3: text on images2 min readThe only family in the catalogue that writes actual letters with confidence. Other networks turn captions into mush — Ideogram produces readable signs, logos and posters.08Qwen3: speaks more than English2 min readAlibaba's image family. Its distinguishing feature: it understands prompts beyond English — Russian and Chinese need no translating.09Grok Imagine: images and video by xAI1 min readThree tools in one family: image from text, video from text, and photo animation. What sets them apart is attitude — Grok draws bolder and livelier than the rest.10Kling: photo animation and video from text2 min readA family of video models. Better than most at natural human motion: walking, facial expression, turns of the head.11Seedance: cinema from text2 min readByteDance's video models with a cinematic look: camera work, lighting, composition. They handle complex scripted prompts with several actions in a row.12Wan 2.7: 1080p video with controlled motion1 min readAlibaba's video model. It delivers clean 1080p and does something rare: you set the first and last frame, and the model invents the path between them.13Hailuo 2.3 Pro: expressive photo animation1 min readMiniMax's video model for bringing photos to life. Its strength is emotion and facial motion: faces move alive rather than like masks.14Pixverse V6: fast video with sound1 min readA video model built for speed and volume. Not the picture-quality flagship, but cheap, fast, and able to generate a soundtrack right away.15MiniMax H3: 2K video1 min readA next-generation video model by MiniMax. The headline feature is 2K resolution, above the 1080p most models top out at.
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