Cheapest Image Generation APIs

The lowest-cost image generation APIs, ranked by price per image. Per-image pricing varies widely by model and resolution, so the cheapest option for a quick draft is rarely the same as the best for production quality.

Ranking 50 options · updated July 2, 2026

# Model Provider Per image
1 Flux 2 Dev open Black Forest Labs $0.0000
2 Flux Kontext Dev open Black Forest Labs $0.0000
3 Kolors open fal.ai $0.0011
4 SDXL 1.0 open fal.ai $0.0013
5 Flux 1 Schnell open Muapi $0.0030
6 Flux 1 Schnell open fal.ai $0.0030
7 Flux 1 Schnell open Replicate $0.0030
8 Flux 1 Schnell open Cloudflare Workers AI $0.0030
9 Z-Image KIE AI $0.0040
10 Z-Image Muapi $0.0040
11 SDXL 1.0 open Muapi $0.0040
12 Flux 1 Schnell open AIMLAPI $0.0040
13 Z-Image SiliconFlow $0.0050
14 Flux 1 Dev open WaveSpeed AI $0.0050
15 Leonardo Phoenix Cloudflare Workers AI $0.0060
16 Flux 2 Klein open Muapi $0.0065
17 Z-Image Muapi $0.0070
18 Flux 2 Klein open WaveSpeed AI $0.0080
19 Flux 2 Klein open fal.ai $0.0090
20 HunyuanImage fal.ai $0.010
21 CogView-4 Zhipu AI $0.010
22 Flux 1 Dev open Hyperbolic $0.010
23 SDXL 1.0 open Hyperbolic $0.010
24 Flux 2 Dev open fal.ai $0.012
25 Flux 2 Dev open Replicate $0.012
26 Z-Image Muapi $0.013
27 GPT Image 1.5 Replicate $0.013
28 Flux 1 Dev open SiliconFlow $0.014
29 Flux 2 Klein open Black Forest Labs $0.014
30 Kolors open Kling AI $0.014
31 Flux 2 Dev open Muapi $0.015
32 Flux 1 Dev open Muapi $0.015
33 Flux 2 Pro Replicate $0.015
34 Flux 2 Klein open Cloudflare Workers AI $0.015
35 Ideogram 3.0 KIE AI $0.018
36 Gemini 2.5 Flash Image KIE AI $0.020
37 Imagen 4 KIE AI $0.020
38 GPT Image 1.5 KIE AI $0.020
39 Grok Aurora KIE AI $0.020
40 Qwen Image KIE AI $0.020
41 Flux Kontext Dev open Muapi $0.020
42 Imagen 4 Fast Muapi $0.020
43 Ideogram 3.0 Muapi $0.020
44 Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium open fal.ai $0.020
45 Grok Aurora fal.ai $0.020
46 Imagen 4 Fast Replicate $0.020
47 Grok Aurora Replicate $0.020
48 Qwen Image Novita AI $0.020
49 Imagen 4 Fast Google $0.020
50 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image KIE AI $0.020

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