Best AI models for image generation
Models for hero images, marketing visuals, illustrations, and on-brand creative.
Image models trade off prompt fidelity, photorealism, and speed. The right pick depends on whether you're producing one polished hero (slow, high-quality) or fanning out a hundred social variants (fast, cheap, batchable).
Switchy's picks
- 1Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, a.k.a. "Nano Banana 2," is Google’s latest state of the art image generation and editing model, delivering Pro-level visual quality at Flash speed. It combines...
google66K context$0.50/Mtok in - 2Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)
Nano Banana Pro is Google’s most advanced image-generation and editing model, built on Gemini 3 Pro. It extends the original Nano Banana with significantly improved multimodal reasoning, real-world grounding, and...
google66K context$2.00/Mtok in - 3OpenAI: GPT-5 Image
[GPT-5](https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5) Image combines OpenAI's GPT-5 model with state-of-the-art image generation capabilities. It offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience while incorporating GPT Image 1's superior instruction following,...
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Other image models
- Auto Routeropenrouter
- DALL-E 2openai
- DALL-E 3openai
- Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)google
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Miniopenai
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2openai
- SStable Diffusion 3stabilityai