Image Editing

Discover and compare the best AI models for image editing and generation. Note: This is my personal non-scientific leaderboard. Models are ranked by the completion rate of a series of diverse prompts designed to thoroughly assess performance.

RankCompanyModelScore
ByteDance Seed
87.2
Google
87
OpenAI
GPT-4o
76.46
4
Alibaba
75.04
5
ByteDance Seed
SeedEdit 3.0
74.02
6
Black Forest Labs
72.53
7
HiDream
69.12
8
Black Forest Labs
62.84
9
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview
61.82
10
Bytedance
49.9
11
VectorSpaceLab
49.86
12
StepFun
Step1X-Edit
49

Full tutorial & review videos

Watch the videos below for comprehensive comparisons and detailed installation guides for select image editing models.

Methodology

Models are ranked using a series of prompts involving diverse range of challenging tasks. This includes:

  • Prompt adherence and understanding
  • Human anatomy
  • Generating text
  • Diagrams and infographics
  • World understanding
  • Uncommon poses and expressions
  • Spatial understanding
  • NSFW capabilities

To prevent manipulation, the prompts are kept confidential and are regularly updated to increase difficulty as models improve. Here is a subset of prompts for your reference:

Make the characters fight according to the pose drawing. They are fighting in an arctic background with a blizzard
Turn the scene into night time
Make a fisheye overhead view of this scene
Turn all the girls into cats and boys into dogs
Make a model sheet of this character with a front, back, and side view
Translate all the text into Chinese
Restore and colorize this photo