The strongest all-rounder of 2026: the highest prompt adherence in our battery and photorealism that three blind reviewers put first in 68% of paired comparisons.
Nearly Alpha-grade output at a tenth of the per-image cost. For production volume, this is the rational pick.
Layer-level editing control no rival matches, built for iterative workflows rather than one-shot generation.
Every tool ranked above faced the same battery: fifty standardized prompts, three blind reviewers, four weighted dimensions. Nothing here is sponsored; nothing here is approximate. The full method — including the prompt set and scoring rules — is published, and any score on this page can be recomputed from it.