Models/Collections/Best for Portraits

Best for Portraits

Models judged on rendering people: facial structure, skin, hands, expression and gaze. Covers headshots, character portraits and editorial photography of people.

Models

Premium image generation and editing with precise control across iterative edits

$5.00/ 1M tokensText input tokens
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Fast, high-quality image generation and editing for everyday creative production

$5.00/ 1M tokensText input tokens
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Next-generation Grok image generation and editing with quality-aware output control

$0.04/ imageQuality low · 1K
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Agentic image generation and editing with multi-reference composition, clean text rendering, and precise local edits

$0.01/ image
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Flagship image model for controlled editing, multi-reference generation, and layer-aware visual workflows

$0.04815/ image1.5K
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High-control image generation and editing for dense layouts, small text rendering, and multilingual visual design

$0.04/ image1K output image
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Unified image generation and multi-reference editing with LLM prompt rewriting

$0.075/ image
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Image generation and editing model with strong prompt fidelity, text rendering, and layout-aware control

$5.00/ 1M tokensText input tokens
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Higher-resolution controlled image generation for polished product and e-commerce assets

$0.21/ image
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Polished image model with stronger cinematic lighting, cleaner focus, and richer portrait detail

$0.01495/ image1024 x 1024
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Stable Diffusion XL IP-Adapter for face-guided portrait generation with stronger identity cues

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Open-weight alternatives

Black Forest Labs

FLUX 3 Image Klein

by Black Forest Labs

Distilled open-weights model for fast image generation and editing

$0.003 / image · 512×512 · steps 16
Black Forest Labs

FLUX 3 Image Klein Base

by Black Forest Labs

Undistilled open-weights foundation for fine-tuning and customization

$0.0089 / image · 512×512 · steps 50
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Krea 2 Turbo

by krea

Fast open-source Krea image model for low-cost text-to-image generation and LoRA-friendly workflows

$0.015 / image
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Krea 2 Raw

by krea

Base 12B Krea 2 checkpoint for finetuning, post-training, and open-weight text-to-image workflows

$0.015 / image

Model guides

GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst

Precision editing

How to use GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst for detailed and repeated edits: what the longer generation time buys, and when to reach for it instead of Flare.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Prompting

How to prompt GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: writing a brief it can plan a layout from, pinning counts and positions, and choosing a size from its custom dimension envelope.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Quality levels

How to set rendering effort on GPT-Image-2.5 Flare with settings.quality: what each level changes, what it costs, and which subjects are worth the top of the ladder.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Editing images

How to edit an image with GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: one source, one written instruction, and the composition, lighting and detail the model holds while it changes what you named.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Subject consistency

How to keep one product or character recognisable across new scenes with GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: how many reference images to send, and how to say what each one is for.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Masked editing

How to confine an edit to a painted region with GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: what white and black mean, and why the mask is guidance rather than a hard boundary.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Iterative editing

How to run a chain of edits with GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: feeding each result back as the next source, what accumulates across passes, and when to restate instead of chain.

Read the guide →GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

Transparent backgrounds

How to generate cut-out assets with GPT-Image-2.5 Flare: settings.background, the output format it forces, and prompting for edges that survive compositing.

Read the guide →Grok Imagine Image 2.0

Prompting

How to write text-to-image prompts for Grok Imagine Image 2.0: structuring a shot, directing the camera and light, the 1K and 2K aspect pairs, and its factual detail.

Read the guide →Grok Imagine Image 2.0

Rendering accurate text

How to render accurate, readable text with Grok Imagine Image 2.0: quoting the exact words, directing typography and hierarchy, and holding up on small, dense layouts.

Read the guide →Grok Imagine Image 2.0

Editing images

How to edit an image with Grok Imagine Image 2.0: recolour, restyle, remove objects, swap backgrounds, and relight from one reference image and a prompt.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Prompting

How to prompt Muse Image: writing a brief it can plan a layout from, setting the thinking level, picking one of the eight size pairs, and working without a seed.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Editing images

How to edit an image with Muse Image: passing one source image, targeting a region in words, removing objects, restoring old photos, and refining a result across passes.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Rendering exact text

How to render exact, legible copy inside an image with Muse Image: quoting the literal string, keeping it short, directing the type, and landing multi-element layouts.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Composing with multiple reference images

How to build one image out of up to ten reference images with Muse Image: giving each reference a job in the prompt, and letting the references set the output shape.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Grounding images with web and image search

How to ground Muse Image in real facts and real references with settings.webSearch and settings.imageSearch, and when to switch the lookups off.

Read the guide →Muse Image

Building infographics and charts

How to build data-accurate charts and infographics with Muse Image: what settings.shell does, how to write your figures into the prompt, and when to switch it off.

Read the guide →Seedream 5.0 Pro

Prompting

How to prompt Seedream 5.0 Pro for text-to-image, reference-guided editing, and multi-image fusion in commercial workflows: campaign posters, product variants, and editorial still-life.

Read the guide →Seedream 5.0 Pro

Multilingual text rendering

How to prompt Seedream 5.0 Pro for accurate in-image text across 15 native languages, from French posters with accented characters to Arabic, Thai, Korean, and Japanese scripts.

Read the guide →Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

Prompting

How to prompt Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro, from sizing inside its pixel budget and banner ratios to layering a scene, quoting on-image copy, and locking a result with a seed.

Read the guide →Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

Prompt extension

How promptExtend works on Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro: what the LLM rewrite adds, how direct and agent differ, where thinking fits, and why an extended prompt breaks seeds.

Read the guide →Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

Editing images

How to edit a single image with Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro: naming what changes and what holds, swapping label copy, circling the region to edit, and chaining edits.

Read the guide →Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

Composing from multiple reference images

How to combine up to ten reference images with Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro: assigning each a role, dressing a model from packshots, staging a room, and building a team photo.

Read the guide →Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

Transparent backgrounds

How to generate cut-outs with a real alpha channel on Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro: the prompt wording that turns it on, the output formats that keep it, and subject extraction from a photo.

Read the guide →GPT Image 2

Prompting

How to write prompts for GPT Image 2 across the cases the model handles unusually well: photorealism, accurate text, world-knowledge composition, and multi-image editing workflows.

Read the guide →