Comparison
GPT Image 2 vs Flux 2 Pro vs Imagen 4: When Each One Wins
Three frontier image models, three strong opinions. A working guide to which one you call for which job, based on what each is actually good at in April 2026.
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Every GPT Image 2 post, filterable by category, sortable by date, searchable by keyword.
Three frontier image models, three strong opinions. A working guide to which one you call for which job, based on what each is actually good at in April 2026.
Three tiers, a 40x price spread, and one decision that drives most of your cost. Here is the math on when low is fine, when medium is obvious, and when high earns its keep.
Two concrete recipes: a SaaS dashboard screenshot and a beverage can label. Both produce legible, accurate text if you specify the right details.
At 2048px, prompts that worked fine at 1024 start to break. Three patterns that hold up, plus a worked example that actually tests the resolution limit.
OpenAI's May 12, 2026 shutdown of DALL-E 3 is less than a month away. Every stored prompt you built against DALL-E 3 needs to work against its successor before the API returns 410 on every call.
Today's flagship text-to-image models ship with a warm-yellow tint baked in. Here is the prompt hygiene that gets you to neutral on GPT Image 1.5 and Flux while you wait for GPT Image 2.