The best image to image model is GPT Image 2 API, rated 1254 Elo (#2 of 68) in the Image Editing Arena by human preference. GPT-Image 1.5 (1254 Elo) and Nano Banana 2 (1245 Elo) round out the top three. 20 of the 47 models below carry arena rankings.
Image editing and image-to-image AI models — inpainting, style transfer, upscaling and instruction-based editing — ranked by human-preference Elo where measured.