What is the best AI image editing model?

Based on blind community voting, Nano Banana 2 is currently the #1 ranked AI image editing model with an Elo rating of 1234. Rankings update in real time as new votes come in.

How are AI image editing models ranked on Lumenfall?

Lumenfall Arena ranks AI models through blind community voting. In each matchup, two models generate from the same prompt and voters pick the better result without seeing model names. Votes are processed using TrueSkill, a Bayesian rating algorithm developed by Microsoft Research, that produces a single Elo score reflecting each model's relative quality.

What is an Elo rating for AI models?

An Elo rating is a numerical score representing a model's skill relative to other models. Under the hood, Lumenfall uses TrueSkill, which tracks two values per model: mu (estimated skill) and sigma (uncertainty). The displayed Elo is calculated as 1000 + 10 x (mu - 3*sigma), a conservative lower bound. A model must prove itself consistently across many matchups to earn a high rating.

Best AI Models for Creativity

Creativity · Image Editing

Elo rankings from blind votes across 2 challenges in this category.

Grok Imagine Image Pro

Highlights

10 images

Price · Performance

Best models, by

Every ranked model plotted by price against its Elo. The upper-left frontier is the best value: top quality at the lowest cost.

Best Image Editing Models by Price

Best AI Models for Creativity

15 models ranked · Last update: July 12, 2026 12:52 AM

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1234
2	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1231
3	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1229
4	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1223
5	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1213
6	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1211
7	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1210
8	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1208
9	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1203
10	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1202

11	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1184
12	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢	1180
13	Qwen Image Edit 2511 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1173
14	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1159
15	Nano Banana 2 Lite Google	$$	1.7¢	1139

Google dominates the Creativity category with Nano Banana 2 holding a 71.3% win rate and a 1234 Elo, despite being priced 67% lower than the second-place Nano Banana Pro (1231 Elo). These results differ from the overall leaderboard as ByteDance’s Seedream 4.5 (1229 Elo) and xAI’s Grok Imagine Image Pro (1214 Elo) narrow the gap, offering more competitive creative performance than in general utility rankings.

Rivalries

Aggregate head-to-head across the arena

Seedream 4.5 Grok Imagine Image Pro

45% 2 challenges 45%

FLUX.2 [pro] FLUX.2 [max]

36% 2 challenges 55%

Nano Banana Pro Grok Imagine Image

50% 2 challenges 40%

Reve Image 1.0 Qwen Image Edit 2511

70% 1 challenge 30%

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Highlighted challenges

Image Editing Photorealism Adding & Editing Objects

Man and Car in California

Combines two references (a person and a car) into one believable driving scene. It checks whether the model keeps the man’s identity and the car’s appearance while placing them convincingly on the coastline with matched lighting and perspective.

Image Editing Photorealism Face & Identity

Bald man challenge

A targeted edit test. Adding a realistic head of hair requires a believable hairline and texture while keeping the face, expression, and lighting unchanged. Common failures are wig-like or pasted-on hair and subtle changes to the underlying face.

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Creativity · Image Editing

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