GPT Image 2 API leads on human preference — 1339 vs 1165 Elo (#1 of 149 in the Image Arena). The right pick still depends on style, speed and licensing — details below.
Bytedance Seedream V4.5 Text To Imagefal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4.5/text-to-imagevs
GPT Image 2 API✓openai/gpt-image-2| Human-preference Elo | 1165 | 1339 |
| Arena rank | #30 of 149 | #1 of 149 |
| Category | text-to-image | text-to-image |
| License | commercial | commercial |
By human preference, GPT Image 2 API currently rates higher (1339 vs 1165 Elo). Preference votes measure typical output quality; test both on your own prompts for style fit.
Both are text to image models available as hosted API endpoints — Bytedance Seedream V4.5 Text To Image (fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4.5/text-to-image) and GPT Image 2 API (openai/gpt-image-2).
See the full best text-to-image models ranking.