LLM Models

ByteDance's unified image generation and editing model (2025), combining creation and editing in a single architecture. Seedream 4.0 produces up to 4K images with ~1.8-second generation, strong reference consistency, and batch processing, and is served via API partners like fal and Replicate.

Midjourney's flagship image model (April 2025, default since June 2025), prized for its distinctive, highly aesthetic output. V7 adds voice prompting, a personalization model, and a Draft mode that renders at ~10x speed and half the cost, with richer textures and more coherent hands and objects.

Recraft's October 2024 design-focused image model (codenamed 'red_panda'), which topped the Artificial Analysis Image Arena at launch. It excels at brand-consistent design, precise text placement, and is one of the few models to generate editable SVG vector graphics.

Ideogram's March 2025 text-to-image model, the specialist for accurate in-image text and typography, with notably improved photorealism over 2.0. It offers style references, magic prompt enhancement, and precise layout control for posters, logos, and designs.

Google DeepMind's flagship text-to-image model, delivering top-tier photorealism, improved text rendering, and strong prompt adherence. Imagen 4 is available through the Gemini API and Vertex AI, with an Ultra tier for the highest-fidelity generations.

Stability AI's 8-billion-parameter open text-to-image model (October 2024), the largest of the SD 3.5 family. Built on the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture, it improves prompt adherence and image quality over SDXL and is released under the permissive Stability Community License.

The open-weight member of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 family (November 2025), released on Hugging Face for self-hosting and fine-tuning. FLUX.2 [dev] brings the family's 32B-parameter photorealism and prompt adherence to local and customizable image pipelines.

Black Forest Labs' commercial flagship text-to-image model (November 2025), part of the 32-billion-parameter FLUX.2 family. FLUX.2 [pro] delivers state-of-the-art photorealism and prompt adherence via API, alongside the open-weight FLUX.2 [dev] and the sub-second FLUX.2 [klein] variants.

Black Forest Labs' 12B parameter rectified flow transformer for text-to-image generation. Created by ex-Stability AI developers, released August 2024. Three variants: schnell (Apache 2.0, 1-4 steps, fast), dev (guidance distillation, efficient), pro (state-of-the-art quality). Uses Diffusion Transformer combining Transformer and CNN architectures. Supports resolutions: 1024x1024, 768x1344, 1344x768, 1216x832. Schnell variant generates high-quality images in only 1-4 steps using latent adversarial diffusion distillation. Enables commercial use (schnell/pro), dev for non-commercial.

Mistral AI's first code-specialized open-weight model with 22B parameters. Released May 2024, designed explicitly for code generation tasks including function completion, test writing, and fill-in-the-middle code completion. Trained on diverse dataset of 80+ programming languages (Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Bash, Swift, Fortran, etc.). Features 32K context window - larger than competitors' 4K-16K. Licensed under Mistral AI Non-Production License for research/testing; commercial licenses available on demand. Helps developers write and interact with code through unified instruction and completion API.

Mistral's first reasoning model (June 2025), the API-served Medium tier tuned for transparent, multi-step reasoning across math, coding, and logic. Magistral shows ~15% gains on AIME 24/25 and LiveCodeBench over prior Mistral models, with a reasoning-oriented context window.

Mistral's 124B multimodal model (November 2024), built on Mistral Large 2 with an integrated vision encoder for frontier-class image understanding. It handles documents, charts, and natural images alongside text with a 128K context window.