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Ideogram
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Flux (Black Forest Labs)
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Claude Code
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DeepSeek
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TaglineThe one that actually gets text in images right.Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer.Anthropic's CLI agent. Opus-powered, operates on your repo directly.Chinese open-weight powerhouse. Crazy cheap, genuinely smart.
Categoryimageimagecodingchat
PricingFree + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/moAPI + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0)Part of Claude Pro/Max/Team plansFree web + ultra-cheap API (~$0.14/M input tokens)
Best forAnything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.Developers + power users who want control and privacy.Developers who want an agent, not autocomplete. Large refactors, tests, docs.Developers + cost-conscious builders. Anyone fine with self-hosting.
Strengths
  • Best text rendering in the game
  • Strong free tier
  • Good for logos, posters, thumbnails
  • Runs locally on a beefy GPU
  • Very photoreal
  • Best open-weight model
  • Runs locally, edits your actual files
  • Strong on large codebases with 1M context
  • Great at multi-step tasks
  • Open weights you can self-host
  • Strong reasoning + math
  • Near-free API pricing
  • DeepSeek-V3 / R1 are serious models
Weaknesses
  • Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney
  • Less style variety
  • Harder to use than hosted tools
  • Needs infra
  • Terminal-based — learning curve
  • Can't be used without Claude subscription
  • Data goes to servers in China — privacy concerns for business use
  • Chinese policy filters
  • English polish trails Western models
Kai's verdictS-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.A-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters.S-tier if you live in the terminal. Different shape than Cursor — complementary, not replacement.S-tier for price/performance. A-tier for consumer use. If you build apps, this is the budget pick.
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