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Text to image API pricing

Text to image API pricing on 6 platforms: 559 endpoints for text to image and 1,128 current prices, across 14 model families. The cheapest exact price is $0.003/image for FLUX 1 Schnell, on Replicate. Prices are read from each platform daily and tagged by task, resolution and duration.

Endpoints
559
Current prices
1,128
Model families
14
Cheapest
$0.003/image

Same model, platform by platform

One row per model version that can text to image, by model family, newest first; each cell is that platform’s lowest exact price for it (per image). Green is the cheapest platform for that version. Versions are not ranked against each other.

VersionOpenRouterkie.aifalWaveSpeedReplicateAPIMart
Nano Banana 2.1Ranked at 1K$7.5/M out$0.02/image1K$35.294/M out$0.036/image1K$0.0336/image1K$0.012/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
Nano Banana 2Ranked at 1K$3/M out$0.04/image1K$0.08/image$0.063/image1K$0.067/image1K$0.012/image1Kext endpoint · stability may varyStandard endpoint: $0.0536/image
Nano Banana 2 Lite—$0.02/image1K$37.5/M out$0.04/image$0.034/image$0.008/imageext endpoint · stability may varyStandard endpoint: $0.032/image
Nano Banana ProRanked at 2K$12/M out$0.09/image2K$0.15/image$0.126/image2K$0.15/image2K$0.02/image2Kext endpoint · stability may varyStandard endpoint: $0.1072/image
Imagen 4.0—$0.04/run———$0.04/image
GPT Image 2.6 Flare$30/M out$1.08/M out$30/M out$0.027/image1K · Low quality$0.05/imageLow quality$0.0085/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst$30/M out$1.08/M out$30/M out$0.027/image1K · Low quality$0.05/imageLow quality$0.0085/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
GPT Image 2.6 Flare Max———$0.225/image1K · Max$0.5/imageMax—
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst Max———$0.225/image1K · Max$0.5/imageMax—
GPT Image 2.5 FlareRanked at 1K$30/M out$0.03/image1K$30/M out$0.01/image1K · Low quality$0.012/imageLow quality$0.0085/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
GPT Image 2.5 SunburstRanked at 1K$30/M out$0.03/image1K$30/M out$0.01/image1K · Low quality$0.012/imageLow quality$0.0085/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
GPT Image 2.5 Flare Max———$0.36/image1K · Max$0.5/imageMax—
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst Max———$0.36/image1K · Max$0.5/imageMax—
GPT Image 2Ranked at 1K$30/M out$0.03/image1K$30/M out$0.0095/image1K · Low quality$0.012/imageLow quality$0.0085/image1Kext endpoint · stability may vary
GPT Image 1.5Ranked at 1024×1024 · Low quality—$0.02/imageMedium quality$0.009/image1024×1024 · Low quality$0.01/image1024×1024 · Low quality$0.013/imageLow quality$0.0058/image1:1 · Low quality
GPT Image 1$40/M out————$0.007/image1:1 · Low quality
GPT Image 1 Mini$8/M out—$1/unit———
FLUX 3Ranked at 1K$0.041/image—$0.048/MP$0.048/image1K$0.024/image1K$0.0384/image1K
FLUX 3 KleinRanked at 1K$0.008/image$0.008/image1K$0.009/MP$0.01/image1K—$0.0072/image1K
FLUX 2.0 Turbo——$0.008/MP$0.04/image——
FLUX 2.0 Pro$0.03/MP$0.025/image1K$0.03/MP$0.03/image$0.015/MP$0.024/image1 MP
FLUX 2.0 Flash——$0.005/MP$0.025/image——
FLUX 2.0 Max$0.07/MP—$0.07/MP$0.07/image$0.03/MP$0.056/image1 MP
FLUX 2.0 Klein$0.014/MP—$0.005/MP$0.008/image$0.001/MP—
FLUX 2.0 Dev———$0.012/image$0.014/MP—
FLUX 2.0 Flex$0.06/MP$0.07/image1K$0.05/MP$0.06/image$0.06/MP$0.04/image1 MP
FLUX 1.1 Pro——$0.04/MP$0.04/image$0.04/image—
FLUX 1.1 Pro Ultra——$0.06/image$0.06/image$0.06/image—
FLUX 1——$0.006/MP$0.02/image——
FLUX 1 Pro——$0.055/MP—$0.055/image—
FLUX 1 Schnell——$0.003/MP$0.003/image$0.003/image—
FLUX 1 Dev——$0.025/MP$0.012/image$0.025/image—
FLUX 1 Kontext Pro—$0.025/imagePro$0.04/image$0.04/image——
FLUX 1 Kontext Max—$0.05/imageMax—$0.08/image——
FLUX 1 Krea Dev——$0.025/MP$0.02/image$0.025/image—
Seedream 5.0 ProRanked at 1K$0.045/image$0.035/image1K$0.0675/unit$0.0405/image1K$0.045/image1K$0.0293/image1K
Seedream 5.0 Lite$0.035/image$0.0275/image$0.035/image$0.035/image$0.035/image$0.028/image2K · 3K · 4K
Seedream 5.0 FlashRanked at 1K$0.018/image$0.0162/image1K$0.027/image$0.0243/image1K—$0.0137/image1K · 1.5K · 2K
Seedream 4.5$0.04/image$0.0325/image$0.04/image$0.04/image$0.04/image$0.026/image2K · 4K
Seedream 4.0—$0.025/image$0.03/image$0.027/image$0.03/image$0.0195/image1K · 2K · 4K
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VersionOpenRouterkie.aifalWaveSpeedReplicateAPIMart
Seedream 3.0—$0.0175/image——$0.03/image—
Qwen Image 3.0Ranked at 1K$0.03/image$0.024/image1K$0.01/unit$0.03/image1K$0.03/image$0.0206/image1K
Qwen Image 3.0 ProRanked at 1K$0.04/image$0.032/image1K—$0.04/image1K$0.04/image$0.0286/image1K
Qwen Image 2.1—$0.02/image1K—From $0.02/run——
Qwen Image 2.0—$0.028/image—$0.03/image$0.035/image$0.02/image1K · 2K
Qwen Image 2.0 Pro———$0.07/image$0.075/image$0.05/image1K · 2K
Ideogram 4.5——$0.001/unit$0.03/image1K · Low quality$0.008/imageLow quality—
Ideogram 4——$0.04/image$0.025/image1K · Low quality$0.1/image—
Ideogram 3—$0.05/image$0.03/image$0.085/image$0.09/image—
Ideogram 3 Turbo—$0.0175/imageTurbo—$0.03/image$0.03/image—
Ideogram 3 Balanced—$0.035/image—$0.06/image$0.06/image—
Ideogram 2——$0.08/image$0.08/image$0.08/image—
Ideogram 2 Turbo——$0.05/image$0.05/image$0.05/image—
Recraft 4.1$0.035/image—$0.035/image$0.04/image$0.04/image—
Recraft 4.1 Pro$0.21/image—$0.21/image$0.25/image$0.25/image—
Recraft 4.1 Flash$0.007/image—$0.007/image$0.008/image——
Recraft 4.1 Vector$0.08/image—$0.08/image$0.1/image$0.04/image—
Recraft 4.1 Pro Vector$0.3/image—$0.3/image$0.36/image$0.25/image—
Recraft 4$0.04/image—$0.04/image$0.04/image$0.04/image—
Recraft 4 Pro$0.25/image—$0.25/image$0.25/image$0.25/image—
Recraft 4 Vector$0.08/image—$0.08/image$0.08/image$0.08/image—
Recraft 4 Pro Vector$0.3/image—$0.3/image—$0.3/image—
Recraft 3$0.04/image—$0.04/image$0.04/image$0.04/image—
Recraft 3 Vector———$0.08/image$0.08/image—
Grok Imagine 2.0Ranked at 1K · Low quality$0.04/image$0.02/image$0.01/unit$0.04/image1K · Low quality$0.04/image1K · Low quality$0.032/image1K · Low quality
Hunyuan Image 3.5$1.6/M out————$0.0192/image1K
Hunyuan Image 3——$0.1/MP$0.1/image$0.08/image—
Hunyuan Image 3 Instruct——$0.09/MP$0.45/image——
Hunyuan Image 2.1——$0.1/MP$0.025/image$0.02/image—
Krea 3——$0.013/s$0.03/image$0.05/image1K · High quality—
Krea 2 Turbo——$0.008/MP$0.012/image1K——
Krea 2 Medium$0.03/image—$0.001/unit$0.03/image$0.03/image—
Krea 2 Large$0.06/image—$0.001/unit$0.06/image$0.06/image—
Krea 2 Medium Turbo$0.015/image—$0.001/unit$0.015/image——
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium——$0.02/MP—$0.035/image—
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large——$0.065/MP—$0.065/image—
Bria 1.5——$0.04/image$0.04/image1 MP——
Luma Photon Flash———$0.005/image$0.01/image—
Sold on one platform only (172)

Nothing to compare these with yet, so no price here is marked cheapest. Showing 40 of 172; the price library has the rest.

VersionPlatformUSD
Nano Banana 2 FastWaveSpeed$0.045/image2K
Nano Banana 2 Flash LiteOpenRouter$1.5/M out
Nano Banana Litefal$37.5/M out
Nano Banana Pro UltraWaveSpeed$0.15/image4K
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)OpenRouter$2.5/M out
nano-banana-extAPIMart$0.008/imageext endpoint · stability may vary
Google nano bananakie.ai$0.02/image
nano-banana Prices are estimates; actual cost is billed by token usage. Token PricingAPIMart$0.0312/image
google/gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview/text-to-imageWaveSpeed$0.038/image
google/gemini-2.5-flash-image/text-to-imageWaveSpeed$0.038/image
google/nano-banana/text-to-imageWaveSpeed$0.038/image
google/gemini-2.5-flash-imageReplicate$0.039/image
google/nano-bananaReplicate$0.039/image
Gemini 2.5 Flash Imagefal$0.0398/image
Nano Bananafal$0.0398/image
nano-bananaAPIMart$2/M out
Imagen 4.0 Fastkie.ai$0.02/runFast
Imagen 4.0 Ultrakie.ai$0.06/imageUltra
GPT Image 2.6 Economykie.ai$0.025/image1K
OpenAI 4o imagekie.ai$0.03/image
DALL-E 3APIMart$0.032/image
GPT-5 Image MiniOpenRouter$2/M out
GPT-5.4 Image 2OpenRouter$15/M out
GPT-5 ImageOpenRouter$10/M out
FLUX 2.0fal$0.012/MP
FLUX 2.0 Dev FastReplicate$0.012/MPFast
FLUX 1 FastReplicate$0.005/image
FLUX 1 Kontextfal$0.035/MP
FLUX 1 Kreafal$0.035/MP
FLUX 1 Pro Kontext Maxfal$0.08/image
FLUX 1 Dev Ultra FastWaveSpeed$0.005/image
Seedream 5.5WaveSpeed$0.02/image1.5K
bytedance/dreamina-3.1Replicate$0.03/image
Qwen Image 2.1 TurboOpenRouter$0.0184/image
Qwen Image 2.1 ProOpenRouter$0.046/image
Qwen Image MaxWaveSpeed$0.07/image
Qwen z-imagekie.ai$0.004/image
wavespeed-ai/z-image/turboWaveSpeed$0.005/image
z-image-turboAPIMart$0.01/image
wavespeed-ai/z-image/baseWaveSpeed$0.01/image

How endpoints are sorted into tasks: by the task words each platform uses in its endpoint ids, names and price labels (image-to-video, i2v, video-edit…). Generation models that name no task count as “Text to image”. One endpoint can be under several tasks.

Model families for this task

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