Images without prompts and statistics are... meaningless. We don't know if/how these adhere, whether they took a thousand hours or a thousandth of a second.
> “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
> “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
> “I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
> “Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,” said the Cat.
I've been running a benchmark for comparing generative image models with a strong emphasis on complex prompt adherence since the days of SDXL back in 2023.
It’s not really intended to be viewed chronologically but there is a progress metric that shows how models have improved their scores over time, which might help you compare earlier models with later models such as Ideogram4 or Moss-Image released in 2026.
Oh my gosh. Makes me want to wake up my comfyUI setup on a RTX 2080 egpu which still works like a charm today even. I think the last time I touched it was about two years ago!
I always found the commercial stuff to be complete rubbish. I was astounded by how I could just spend a couple of hours using open models and open source software to produce better results.
Images without prompts and statistics are... meaningless. We don't know if/how these adhere, whether they took a thousand hours or a thousandth of a second.
> “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
> “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
> “I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
> “Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,” said the Cat.
(Lewis Carroll)
No modern or over-time comparisons?
In some ways I prefer looking at these over the hyper-polished 2026 image generators tbh.
I've been running a benchmark for comparing generative image models with a strong emphasis on complex prompt adherence since the days of SDXL back in 2023.
It’s not really intended to be viewed chronologically but there is a progress metric that shows how models have improved their scores over time, which might help you compare earlier models with later models such as Ideogram4 or Moss-Image released in 2026.
https://genai-showdown.specr.net
Just ask any hyper-polished 2026 image generator for images in the style of August 2022 DALL-E 2.
Oh my gosh. Makes me want to wake up my comfyUI setup on a RTX 2080 egpu which still works like a charm today even. I think the last time I touched it was about two years ago!
I always found the commercial stuff to be complete rubbish. I was astounded by how I could just spend a couple of hours using open models and open source software to produce better results.
For low ram solutions we have fun with Qwen 2.1 or zimage turbo