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Which image editing model should I use?

Use Playground to compare image editing models Replicate Playground In the past few weeks, nearly every major AI lab has released an image editing model. The first was FLUX.1 Kontext from Black Forest Labs in May, which stood out for style transformations and simple image edits. Since then, we’ve seen a wave of models, each strong in its own way. With so many options, it can be hard to figure out which one works best for your needs. In this post, we’re putting them head to head and evaluating each across a range of image editing tasks. By the end, you should have a clear sense of which one fits your workflow. To start, here’s an overview of the cost and average inference time for each model we’re evaluating. Model Lab Price per Image Inference Time FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] Black Forest Labs $0.025 1.7 seconds FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] Black Forest Labs $0.04 4.4 seconds FLUX.1 Kontext [max] Black Forest Labs $0.08 4.9 seconds Qwen Image Edit Alibaba $0.03 2.9 seconds Qwen Image Edit Plus Alibaba $0.03 16 seconds Nano Banana Google $0.039 10 seconds SeedEdit 3.0 ByteDance $0.03 …

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