Compare the Top AI Models in the USA as of February 2026 - Page 10

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    ERNIE 4.5
    ERNIE 4.5 is a cutting-edge conversational AI platform developed by Baidu, leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) models to enable highly sophisticated human-like interactions. The platform is part of Baidu’s ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration) series, which integrates multimodal capabilities, including text, image, and voice. ERNIE 4.5 enhances the ability of AI models to understand complex context and deliver more accurate, nuanced responses, making it suitable for various applications, from customer service and virtual assistants to content creation and enterprise-level automation.
    Starting Price: $0.55 per 1M tokens
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    LearnLM

    LearnLM

    Google

    LearnLM is an experimental, task-specific model designed to align with learning science principles for teaching and learning applications. It is trained to respond to system instructions like "You are an expert tutor," and is capable of inspiring active learning by encouraging practice and providing timely feedback. The model effectively manages cognitive load by presenting relevant, well-structured information across multiple modalities, while dynamically adapting to the learner’s goals and needs, grounding responses in appropriate materials. LearnLM also stimulates curiosity, motivating learners throughout their educational journey, and supports metacognition by helping learners plan, monitor, and reflect on their progress. This innovative model is available for experimentation in AI Studio.
    Starting Price: Free
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    BitNet

    BitNet

    Microsoft

    The BitNet b1.58 2B4T is a cutting-edge 1-bit Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Microsoft, designed to enhance computational efficiency while maintaining high performance. This model, built with approximately 2 billion parameters and trained on 4 trillion tokens, uses innovative quantization techniques to optimize memory usage, energy consumption, and latency. The platform supports multiple modalities and is particularly valuable for applications in AI-powered text generation, offering substantial efficiency gains compared to full-precision models.
    Starting Price: Free
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    GPT-Image-1
    OpenAI's Image Generation API, powered by the gpt-image-1 model, enables developers and businesses to integrate high-quality, professional-grade image generation directly into their tools and platforms. This model offers versatility, allowing it to create images across diverse styles, faithfully follow custom guidelines, leverage world knowledge, and accurately render text, unlocking countless practical applications across multiple domains. Leading enterprises and startups across industries, including creative tools, ecommerce, education, enterprise software, and gaming, are already using image generation in their products and experiences. It gives creators the choice and flexibility to experiment with different aesthetic styles. Users can generate and edit images from simple prompts, adjusting styles, adding or removing objects, expanding backgrounds, and more.
    Starting Price: $0.19 per image
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    ERNIE X1 Turbo
    ERNIE X1 Turbo, developed by Baidu, is an advanced deep reasoning AI model introduced at the Baidu Create 2025 conference. Designed to handle complex multi-step tasks such as problem-solving, literary creation, and code generation, this model outperforms competitors like DeepSeek R1 in terms of reasoning abilities. With a focus on multimodal capabilities, ERNIE X1 Turbo supports text, audio, and image processing, making it an incredibly versatile AI solution. Despite its cutting-edge technology, it is priced at just a fraction of the cost of other top-tier models, offering a high-value solution for businesses and developers.
    Starting Price: $0.14 per 1M tokens
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    Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition)
    Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition) by Google is an advanced AI model designed to streamline coding tasks and enhance web app development. This powerful tool allows developers to efficiently transform and edit code, reducing errors and improving function calling accuracy. With enhanced capabilities in video understanding and web app creation, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview excels at building aesthetically pleasing and functional web applications. Available through Google’s Gemini API and AI platforms, this model provides a seamless solution for developers to create innovative applications with improved performance and reliability.
    Starting Price: $19.99/month
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    Mirage by Captions
    Mirage by Captions is the world's first AI model designed to generate UGC content. It generates original actors with natural expressions and body language, completely free from licensing restrictions. With Mirage, you’ll experience your fastest video creation workflow yet. Using just a prompt, generate a complete video from start to finish. Instantly create your actor, background, voice, and script. Mirage brings unique AI-generated actors to life, free from rights restrictions, unlocking limitless, expressive storytelling. Scaling video ad production has never been easier. Thanks to Mirage, marketing teams cut costly production cycles, reduce reliance on external creators, and focus more on strategy. No actors, studios, or shoots needed, just enter a prompt, and Mirage generates a full video, from script to screen. Skip the legal and logistical headaches of traditional video production.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Gemma 3n

    Gemma 3n

    Google DeepMind

    Gemma 3n is our state-of-the-art open multimodal model, engineered for on-device performance and efficiency. Made for responsive, low-footprint local inference, Gemma 3n empowers a new wave of intelligent, on-the-go applications. It analyzes and responds to combined images and text, with video and audio coming soon. Build intelligent, interactive features that put user privacy first and work reliably offline. Mobile-first architecture, with a significantly reduced memory footprint. Co-designed by Google's mobile hardware teams and industry leaders. 4B active memory footprint with the ability to create submodels for quality-latency tradeoffs. Gemma 3n is our first open model built on this groundbreaking, shared architecture, allowing developers to begin experimenting with this technology today in an early preview.
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    Orpheus TTS

    Orpheus TTS

    Canopy Labs

    Canopy Labs has introduced Orpheus, a family of state-of-the-art speech large language models (LLMs) designed for human-level speech generation. These models are built on the Llama-3 architecture and are trained on over 100,000 hours of English speech data, enabling them to produce natural intonation, emotion, and rhythm that surpasses current state-of-the-art closed source models. Orpheus supports zero-shot voice cloning, allowing users to replicate voices without prior fine-tuning, and offers guided emotion and intonation control through simple tags. The models achieve low latency, with approximately 200ms streaming latency for real-time applications, reducible to around 100ms with input streaming. Canopy Labs has released both pre-trained and fine-tuned 3B-parameter models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, with plans to release smaller models of 1B, 400M, and 150M parameters for use on resource-constrained devices.
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    MARS6

    MARS6

    CAMB.AI

    CAMB.AI's MARS6 is a groundbreaking text-to-speech (TTS) model that has become the first speech model accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bedrock platform. This integration allows developers to incorporate advanced TTS capabilities into generative AI applications, facilitating the creation of enhanced voice assistants, engaging audiobooks, interactive media, and various audio-centric experiences. MARS6's advanced algorithms enable natural and expressive speech synthesis, setting a new standard for TTS conversion. Developers can access MARS6 directly through the Amazon Bedrock platform, ensuring seamless integration into applications and enhancing user engagement and accessibility. The inclusion of MARS6 in AWS Bedrock's diverse selection of foundation models underscores CAMB.AI's commitment to advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence, providing developers with vital tools to create rich audio experiences supported by AWS's reliable and scalable infrastructure.
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    OpenAI o3-pro
    OpenAI’s o3-pro is a high-performance reasoning model designed for tasks that require deep analysis and precision. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, succeeding the earlier o1-pro model. The model excels in complex fields like mathematics, science, and coding by employing detailed step-by-step reasoning. It integrates advanced tools such as real-time web search, file analysis, Python execution, and visual input processing. While powerful, o3-pro has slower response times and lacks support for features like image generation and temporary chats. Despite these trade-offs, o3-pro demonstrates superior clarity, accuracy, and adherence to instructions compared to its predecessor.
    Starting Price: $20 per 1 million tokens
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    MiniMax M1

    MiniMax M1

    MiniMax

    MiniMax‑M1 is a large‑scale hybrid‑attention reasoning model released by MiniMax AI under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports an unprecedented 1 million‑token context window and up to 80,000-token outputs, enabling extended reasoning across long documents. Trained using large‑scale reinforcement learning with a novel CISPO algorithm, MiniMax‑M1 completed full training on 512 H800 GPUs in about three weeks. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on benchmarks in mathematics, coding, software engineering, tool usage, and long‑context understanding, matching or outperforming leading models. Two model variants are available (40K and 80K thinking budgets), with weights and deployment scripts provided via GitHub and Hugging Face.
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    Marey

    Marey

    Moonvalley

    Marey is Moonvalley’s foundational AI video model engineered for world-class cinematography, offering filmmakers precision, consistency, and fidelity across every frame. It is the first commercially safe video model, trained exclusively on licensed, high-resolution footage to eliminate legal gray areas and safeguard intellectual property. Designed in collaboration with AI researchers and professional directors, Marey mirrors real production workflows to deliver production-grade output free of visual noise and ready for final delivery. Its creative control suite includes Camera Control, transforming 2D scenes into manipulable 3D environments for cinematic moves; Motion Transfer, applying timing and energy from reference clips to new subjects; Trajectory Control, drawing exact paths for object movement without prompts or rerolls; Keyframing, generating smooth transitions between reference images on a timeline; Reference, defining appearance and interaction of individual elements.
    Starting Price: $14.99 per month
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    Solar Pro 2

    Solar Pro 2

    Upstage AI

    Solar Pro 2 is Upstage’s latest frontier‑scale large language model, designed to power complex tasks and agent‑like workflows across domains such as finance, healthcare, and legal. Packaged in a compact 31 billion‑parameter architecture, it delivers top‑tier multilingual performance, especially in Korean, where it outperforms much larger models on benchmarks like Ko‑MMLU, Hae‑Rae, and Ko‑IFEval, while also excelling in English and Japanese. Beyond superior language understanding and generation, Solar Pro 2 offers next‑level intelligence through an advanced Reasoning Mode that significantly boosts multi‑step task accuracy on challenges ranging from general reasoning (MMLU, MMLU‑Pro, HumanEval) to complex mathematics (Math500, AIME) and software engineering (SWE‑Bench Agentless), achieving problem‑solving efficiency comparable to or exceeding that of models twice its size. Enhanced tool‑use capabilities enable the model to interact seamlessly with external APIs and data sources.
    Starting Price: $0.1 per 1M tokens
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    Solar Mini

    Solar Mini

    Upstage AI

    Solar Mini is a pre‑trained large language model that delivers GPT‑3.5‑comparable responses with 2.5× faster inference while staying under 30 billion parameters. It achieved first place on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard in December 2023 by combining a 32‑layer Llama 2 architecture, initialized with high‑quality Mistral 7B weights, with an innovative “depth up‑scaling” (DUS) approach that deepens the model efficiently without adding complex modules. After DUS, continued pretraining restores and enhances performance, and instruction tuning in a QA format, especially for Korean, refines its ability to follow user prompts, while alignment tuning ensures its outputs meet human or advanced AI preferences. Solar Mini outperforms competitors such as Llama 2, Mistral 7B, Ko‑Alpaca, and KULLM across a variety of benchmarks, proving that compact size need not sacrifice capability.
    Starting Price: $0.1 per 1M tokens
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    Syn

    Syn

    Upstage AI

    Syn is a next‑generation Japanese large language model co‑developed by Upstage and Karakuri, featuring under 14 billion parameters and optimized for enterprise use in finance, manufacturing, legal, and healthcare. It delivers top‑tier benchmark performance on the Weights & Biases Nejumi Leaderboard, achieving industry‑leading scores for accuracy and alignment, while maintaining cost efficiency through a lightweight architecture derived from Solar Mini. Syn excels in Japanese “truthfulness” and safety, understanding nuanced expressions and industry‑specific terminology, and offers flexible fine‑tuning to integrate proprietary data and domain knowledge. Built for scalable deployment, it supports on‑premises, AWS Marketplace, and cloud environments, with security and compliance safeguards tailored to enterprise requirements. Leveraging AWS Trainium, Syn reduces training costs by approximately 50 percent compared to traditional GPU setups, enabling rapid customization of use cases.
    Starting Price: $0.1 per 1M tokens
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    Wan2.2

    Wan2.2

    Alibaba

    Wan2.2 is a major upgrade to the Wan suite of open video foundation models, introducing a Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) architecture that splits the diffusion denoising process across high‑noise and low‑noise expert paths to dramatically increase model capacity without raising inference cost. It harnesses meticulously labeled aesthetic data, covering lighting, composition, contrast, and color tone, to enable precise, controllable cinematic‑style video generation. Trained on over 65 % more images and 83 % more videos than its predecessor, Wan2.2 delivers top performance in motion, semantic, and aesthetic generalization. The release includes a compact, high‑compression TI2V‑5B model built on an advanced VAE with a 16×16×4 compression ratio, capable of text‑to‑video and image‑to‑video synthesis at 720p/24 fps on consumer GPUs such as the RTX 4090. Prebuilt checkpoints for T2V‑A14B, I2V‑A14B, and TI2V‑5B stack enable seamless integration.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Seedance

    Seedance

    ByteDance

    Seedance 1.0 API is officially live, giving creators and developers direct access to the world’s most advanced generative video model. Ranked #1 globally on the Artificial Analysis benchmark, Seedance delivers unmatched performance in both text-to-video and image-to-video generation. It supports multi-shot storytelling, allowing characters, styles, and scenes to remain consistent across transitions. Users can expect smooth motion, precise prompt adherence, and diverse stylistic rendering across photorealistic, cinematic, and creative outputs. The API provides a generous free trial with 2 million tokens and affordable pay-as-you-go pricing from just $1.8 per million tokens. With scalability and high concurrency support, Seedance enables studios, marketers, and enterprises to generate 5–10 second cinematic-quality videos in seconds.
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    Seedream

    Seedream

    ByteDance

    Seedream 3.0 is ByteDance’s newest high-aesthetic image generation model, officially available through its API with 200 free trial images. It supports native 2K resolution output for crisp, professional visuals across text-to-image and image-to-image tasks. The model excels at realistic character rendering, capturing nuanced facial details, natural skin textures, and expressive emotions while avoiding the artificial look common in older AI outputs. Beyond realism, Seedream provides advanced text typesetting, enabling designer-level posters with accurate typography, layout, and stylistic cohesion. Its image editing capabilities preserve fine details, follow instructions precisely, and adapt seamlessly to varied aspect ratios. With transparent pricing at just $0.03 per image, Seedream delivers professional-grade visuals at an accessible cost.
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    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google’s latest state-of-the-art image generation and editing model, now accessible via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio’s build mode, and Vertex AI. It enables powerful creative control by allowing users to blend multiple input images into a single visual, maintain consistent characters or products across edits for rich storytelling, and apply precise, natural-language-based–based transformations, such as removing objects, changing poses, adjusting colors, or altering backgrounds. The model is backed by Gemini’s deep world knowledge, enabling it to understand and reinterpret scenes or diagrams in context, which unlocks dynamic use cases like educational tutors or scene-aware editing assistants. Demonstrated through customizable template apps in AI Studio (including photo editors, multi-image fusers, and interactive tools), the model supports rapid prototyping and remixing via prompts or UI.
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    GPT‑5-Codex
    GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding within Codex, focusing on real-world software engineering tasks (building full projects from scratch, adding features & tests, debugging, large-scale refactors, and code reviews). Codex now moves faster, is more reliable, and works better in real-time across your development environments, whether in terminal/CLI, IDE extension, via the web, in GitHub, or even on mobile. GPT-5-Codex is the default model for cloud tasks and code review; developers can also opt to use it locally via Codex CLI or the IDE extension. It dynamically adjusts how much “reasoning time” it spends depending on task complexity; small, well-defined tasks are fast and snappy; more complex ones (refactors, large feature work) get more sustained effort. Code review is stronger; it catches critical bugs before shipping.
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    Seed3D

    Seed3D

    ByteDance

    Seed3D 1.0 is a foundation-model pipeline that takes a single input image and generates a simulation-ready 3D asset, including closed manifold geometry, UV-mapped textures, and physically-based rendering material maps, designed for immediate integration into physics engines and embodied-AI simulators. It uses a hybrid architecture combining a 3D variational autoencoder for latent geometry encoding, and a diffusion-transformer stack to generate detailed 3D shapes, followed by multi-view texture synthesis, PBR material estimation, and UV texture completion. The geometry branch produces watertight meshes with fine structural details (e.g., thin protrusions, holes, text), while the texture/material branch yields multi-view consistent albedo, metallic, and roughness maps at high resolution, enabling realistic appearance under varied lighting. Assets generated by Seed3D 1.0 require minimal cleanup or manual tuning.
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    GPT-5.1

    GPT-5.1

    OpenAI

    GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand.
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    Holo2

    Holo2

    H Company

    H Company’s Holo2 model family delivers cost-efficient, high-performance vision-language models tailored for computer-use agents that navigate, localize UI elements, and act across web, desktop, and mobile environments. The series, available in 4 B, 8 B, and 30 B-A3B sizes, builds on their earlier Holo1 and Holo1.5 models, retaining strong UI grounding while significantly enhancing navigation capabilities. Holo2 models use a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, activating only necessary parameters, to optimize efficiency. Trained on curated localization and agent datasets, they can be deployed as drop-in replacements for their predecessors. They support seamless inference in frameworks compatible with Qwen3-VL models and can be integrated into agentic pipelines like Surfer 2. In benchmark testing, Holo2-30B-A3B achieved 66.1% accuracy on ScreenSpot-Pro and 76.1% on OSWorld-G, leading the UI localization category.
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    GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
    GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the high-capability variant of the GPT-5.1-Codex series designed specifically for software engineering and agentic code workflows. It builds on the base GPT-5.1 architecture with a focus on long-horizon tasks such as full project generation, large-scale refactoring, and autonomous multi-step bug and test management. It introduces adaptive reasoning, meaning the system dynamically allocates more compute for complex problems and less for simpler ones, to improve efficiency and output quality. It also supports tool use (IDE-integrated workflows, version control, CI/CD pipelines) and offers higher fidelity in code review, debugging, and agentic behavior than general-purpose models. Alongside Max, there are lighter variants such as Codex-Mini for cost-sensitive or scale use-cases. The GPT-5.1-Codex family is available in developer previews, including via integrations like GitHub Copilot.
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    Gemini 3 Pro Image
    Gemini Image Pro is a high-capability, multimodal image-generation and editing system that enables users to create, transform, and refine visuals through natural-language prompts or by combining multiple input images, with support for consistent character and object appearance across edits, precise local transformations (such as background blur, object removal, style transfers or pose changes), and native world-knowledge understanding to ensure context-aware outcomes. It supports multi-image fusion, merging several photo inputs into a cohesive new image, and emphasizes design workflow features such as template-based outputs, brand-asset consistency, and repeated character/person-style appearances across scenes. It includes digital watermarking to tag AI-generated imagery and is available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI platforms.
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    LFM2

    LFM2

    Liquid AI

    LFM2 is a next-generation series of on-device foundation models built to deliver the fastest generative-AI experience across a wide range of endpoints. It employs a new hybrid architecture that achieves up to 2x faster decode and prefill performance than comparable models, and up to 3x improvements in training efficiency compared to the previous generation. These models strike an optimal balance of quality, latency, and memory for deployment on embedded systems, allowing real-time, on-device AI across smartphones, laptops, vehicles, wearables, and other endpoints, enabling millisecond inference, device resilience, and full data sovereignty. Available in three dense checkpoints (0.35 B, 0.7 B, and 1.2 B parameters), LFM2 demonstrates benchmark performance that outperforms similarly sized models in tasks such as knowledge recall, mathematics, multilingual instruction-following, and conversational dialogue evaluations.
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    Kling O1

    Kling O1

    Kling AI

    Kling O1 is a generative AI platform that transforms text, images, or videos into high-quality video content, combining video generation and video editing into a unified workflow. It supports multiple input modalities (text-to-video, image-to-video, and video editing) and offers a suite of models, including the latest “Video O1 / Kling O1”, that allow users to generate, remix, or edit clips using prompts in natural language. The new model enables tasks such as removing objects across an entire clip (without manual masking or frame-by-frame editing), restyling, and seamlessly integrating different media types (text, image, video) for flexible creative production. Kling AI emphasizes fluid motion, realistic lighting, cinematic quality visuals, and accurate prompt adherence, so actions, camera movement, and scene transitions follow user instructions closely.
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    GigaChat 3 Ultra
    GigaChat 3 Ultra is a 702-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model built from scratch to deliver frontier-level reasoning, multilingual capability, and deep Russian-language fluency. It activates just 36 billion parameters per token, enabling massive scale with practical inference speeds. The model was trained on a 14-trillion-token corpus combining natural, multilingual, and high-quality synthetic data to strengthen reasoning, math, coding, and linguistic performance. Unlike modified foreign checkpoints, GigaChat 3 Ultra is entirely original—giving developers full control, modern alignment, and a dataset free of inherited limitations. Its architecture leverages MoE, MTP, and MLA to match open-source ecosystems and integrate easily with popular inference and fine-tuning tools. With leading results on Russian benchmarks and competitive performance on global tasks, GigaChat 3 Ultra represents one of the largest and most capable open-source LLMs in the world.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Seedream 4.5

    Seedream 4.5

    ByteDance

    Seedream 4.5 is ByteDance’s latest AI-powered image-creation model that merges text-to-image synthesis and image editing into a single, unified architecture, producing high-fidelity visuals with remarkable consistency, detail, and flexibility. It significantly upgrades prior versions by more accurately identifying the main subject during multi-image editing, strictly preserving reference-image details (such as facial features, lighting, color tone, and proportions), and greatly enhancing its ability to render typography and dense or small text legibly. It handles both creation from prompts and editing of existing images: you can supply a reference image (or multiple), describe changes in natural language, such as “only keep the character in the green outline and delete other elements,” alter materials, change lighting or background, adjust layout and typography, and receive a polished result that retains visual coherence and realism.