AI image models: Nano Banana vs GPT Image
Google's Nano Banana 2.1 against OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5: sizes, references, per-image prices, leaderboard ranks, licences and what users say.
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AI image models: FLUX
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image and its open-weights sibling Klein: 4K output, 10 references, box-level edits, per-image prices and what users say.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedCanva Craft is Canva's own image model, and the API calls it craft_v1_2k behind a preview warning
Canva trained Craft from scratch for layouts and lettering in 55 languages. It is live in Canva and in a preview Connect API endpoint that spends AI credits.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedBlack Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image Klein as open weights
Black Forest Labs' 15 October post releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open-weights image model under the FLUX Kommunity License.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedQwen-Image-2.1-Turbo weights are out, under a non-commercial license
Qwen released the Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo checkpoint on 9 October 2026, eight steps on the same 7B model as the 20 September base. The weights use the Qwen Research License, which bars commercial use.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedMagnific One is an image model that sets art direction before it draws
Magnific launched Magnific One on 8 October, an image model it says decides art direction from a simple prompt, plus Brand Kit, an agent that extracts brand rules. It is on paid plans and the Magnific MCP.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedSwap the Sampler, Keep the Image Model
A compatible scheduler can change image detail and generation speed while the model weights stay fixed. Here is how to compare schedulers without confusing the results.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedNano Banana 2.1 is GA, and the previous image model is deprecated
Nano Banana 2.1 is GA in the Gemini API and gemini-3.1-flash-image is deprecated. Google now lists no shutdown date for it (corrected 21 October).
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedOpenAI will test labeled visual ads during ChatGPT image generation in the US
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads during ChatGPT image generation in the US later this month. The ads stay separate from the generated image, and brand-safety pilots do not see private chats.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildHow AI image generation works, and what publishers must check
Diffusion and autoregressive models turn prompts and references into pictures. Here is how the controls work and what to check before publishing an image.
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