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Midjourney vs Black Forest Labs FLUX vs OpenAI GPT Image vs Google Nano Banana
“Which image generator would you use for marketing visuals?”
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- Candidate 1
Midjourney
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Midjourney (Basic, Standard, Pro, Mega plans)
- Monthly price
- Basic $10 / Standard $30 / Pro $60 / Mega $120
- Annual price
- $96 / $288 / $576 / $1,152 per year
- Fast GPU time
- 3.3 / 15 / 30 / 60 hr per month
- Relax GPU time
- Basic none; Standard unlimited images; Pro/Mega unlimited images and SD video
- Stealth Mode
- Pro and Mega only
- Video resolution
- Basic SD; Standard, Pro, Mega SD and HD
- Extra GPU time
- $4 per hour
- Concurrent jobs
- Basic 3 Fast; Standard 3 Fast or Relax; Pro/Mega 12 Fast or 3 Relax
- Free trial
- None on midjourney.com or Discord; limited trial in niji·journey app
- Platforms
- midjourney.com web, Discord, niji·journey app (iOS, Android)
- All plans are subscriptions that renew automatically monthly or yearly unless cancelled.
- Annual billing gives 20% off, with the full year paid upfront.
- Companies with over $1,000,000 USD gross revenue per year must buy the Pro or Mega plan.
Sources: Comparing Midjourney Plans (official docs) (official) · Free Trials (official docs) (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 2
Black Forest Labs FLUX
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FLUX API (FLUX 3 and FLUX.2 models)
- Pricing model
- Pay-as-you-go credits; no subscriptions or seat fees
- Calculator rate
- $0.048 per image (FLUX 3 Image, default settings)
- Image models
- FLUX 3 Image, FLUX 3 Image Klein, FLUX.2 flex/pro/max/klein
- Video models
- FLUX 3 Video, FLUX 3 Max
- Resolutions (calculator)
- 768×768, 1K, 1.5K, 2K, 4K
- Builder license
- 10K images/month, 1 domain, 10 licensed users
- Platform license
- 100K images/month, 1 domain, 10 licensed users
- Open weights
- Self-hosted licensing to run FLUX models on own infrastructure
- API access
- Yes, FLUX models via API (docs.bfl.ai)
- Certifications
- ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II
- The pricing page covers FLUX 3 and FLUX.2 model families under the FLUX API name.
- The $0.048 rate is the calculator figure for the default selection; rates for other models and resolutions are shown…
- Professional, Enterprise and Synthetic Data licenses are listed with Contact Sales rather than a published price.
Sources: FLUX API Pricing - Black Forest Labs (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 3
OpenAI GPT Image
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GPT Image (GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Flare)
- Models
- gpt-image-2.5-sunburst, gpt-image-2.5-flare
- Text input
- $5.00 per 1M tokens
- Image input
- $8.00 per 1M tokens
- Cached image input
- $2.00 per 1M tokens
- Image output
- $30.00 per 1M tokens
- GPT Image 2, 1024x1024
- Low $0.006, Medium $0.053, High $0.211
- Both GPT Image 2.5 models (Sunburst and Flare) use the same token rates.
- Pricing is per token; the image generation guide's per-image figures are estimates.
- The pricing page points to the image generation guide's calculator for image cost estimates.
Sources: OpenAI API Pricing (user-supplied official page) (official) · Image generation | OpenAI API (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 4
Google Nano Banana
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Nano Banana
- Free plan
- Nano Banana 2 free in the Gemini app
- Latest model
- Nano Banana 2.1 (requires a Google AI plan)
- Google AI Plus
- $4.99/month (US listing)
- Google AI Pro
- $19.99/month (US listing)
- Google AI Ultra
- From $99.99/month (US listing)
- Capabilities
- Character consistency, text rendering, photo combining, precise editing
- Max resolution
- 2K
- Watermarks
- Invisible SynthID plus visible watermark
- Access
- Gemini app, Create images tool
- Nano Banana 2 is free; Nano Banana 2.1 is the page's most advanced image model and is unlocked with a Google AI plan.
- The official page says image generation is available in all countries and languages where the Gemini app is available…
- The page lists the model as Nano Banana 2 in its title and Nano Banana 2.1 in its headline; prices come from the…
Sources: Nano Banana 2 - Gemini AI image generator & photo editor (official) · Google AI Pro & Ultra subscriptions - Gemini (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
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