What one usable AI image costs, from each vendor's own price page.
What does one usable AI image actually cost?
Plan prices hide the number most people want: the cost of one image you actually keep. This page lists what AI image tools charge, straight from each vendor's own pricing page, then works out the cost per image where the vendor publishes enough to do the math. Official vendors come first. Platforms that resell other companies' models are listed separately below.
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Standard, Pro or Mega ($30, $60 or $120 a month, monthly billing), all Fast time used. Worked out: plan price / (Fast hours x 60 x 4 images), at about 1 GPU minute per image prompt of 4 images
These figures assume every image is kept. Use the calculator to see the cost at your own keep rate.
Quick answer
On the official pages checked for this site, published per-image API prices start below one cent (FLUX 3 Image Klein at 768 x 768 is $0.008 per image on Black Forest Labs' pricing page) and run to $0.607 per image (FLUX 3 Image at 4K, same page). Subscription apps price by GPU time, tokens, credits or compute units instead. Worked out from Midjourney's own figures, a Basic plan image costs about $0.0125 on monthly billing. The figure that matters most is your keep rate: if you keep 1 image in 4, every per-image cost is 4 times higher.
Key takeaways
Midjourney sells GPU time, not images. Basic is $10 a month for about 200 image jobs of four images each (checked November 9, 2026).
Ideogram and Krea publish enough to work out a per-image figure. Leonardo does not publish tokens per image, so its per-image cost stays blank.
OpenAI prices GPT Image by tokens. Its own calculator shows $0.02469 in output cost for one GPT Image 2.6 image at low quality, 1024 x 1024 (checked November 9, 2026).
Resellers often list the same model at a different price than its maker. Each figure below is shown as found, with its source and date.
Plan credits on Midjourney, Ideogram and Krea's individual plans do not roll over, so a per-image figure assumes the whole allowance is used.
What share of your images do you keep?
Updates the "per kept image" figures on this page. 25% means you generate 4 images for every one you use.
The default is 100% so the list figure shows first. Your keep rate is your own estimate, not a vendor figure.
Official vendor prices
These are the model makers' own apps and APIs. Prices are copied from each vendor's pricing page or API docs. "Worked out" figures use the formula on the Methodology page.
Subscription apps
Midjourney
(subscription app; operator named in its terms: Midjourney, Inc.)
Plans: Basic $10/mo · Standard $30/mo · Pro $60/mo · Mega $120/mo
Billed yearly: $8 · $24 · $48 · $96 per month ($96 · $288 · $576 · $1,152 a year)
What you get: Fast GPU time of 3.3 hr (200 min), 15 hr, 30 hr and 60 hr a month. Basic is about 200 image jobs a month; one job is four images.
Worked out: about $0.0125 per image on Basic, monthly billing ($10 / 800 images). Standard, Pro and Mega work out to about $0.0083 per image on Fast time, using Midjourney's note that an image prompt usually uses about one GPU minute.
Note: Unused Fast time does not carry over. Relax mode (unlimited images) is on Standard and up, not Basic.
(subscription app; operator named in its terms: KREA.AI, INC.)
Plans (higher card figure / lower card figure with yearly billing): Basic $9 / $5 · Pro $35 / $21 · Max $105 / $63 · Business $200 / $160
Compute units a month: 5,000 · 20,000 · 60,000 · 80,000 (Business, up to 50 seats). Free: 100 units a day.
Worked out: about $0.045 per Nano Banana 2.1 image on Basic monthly ($9 / ~200, the count on Krea's plan card).
Note: Krea's annual comparison table shows Basic at $5.25 a month, while the plan card shows $5. Both are shown as found. Units on Basic, Pro and Max do not roll over.
gpt-image-2.6 and 2.5 (Sunburst and Flare): $8 image input, $30 image output, $2 cached image input, per 1M tokens. Text input $5 per 1M.
Batch gpt-image-2: $4 input, $15 output per 1M tokens.
Per image: $0.02469 output cost for GPT Image 2.6 at low quality, 1024 x 1024 (823 output tokens), per OpenAI's own calculator. Other quality and size settings: not captured.
Adobe Firefly: plan prices are held until they are verified on Adobe's own page for this site. Observation dated November 9, 2026.
ChatGPT app plans: image use inside ChatGPT plans is not priced per image on the pages read, so ChatGPT plan prices are not listed. Observation dated November 9, 2026.
Midjourney API: Midjourney's own pricing page lists subscription plans only and no API price, as checked November 9, 2026.
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Third-party prices (resellers)
These platforms sell access to other companies' image models, often at a different price than the model maker. Listing is for transparency, not endorsement, and none of these platforms paid to be here. Each figure is the platform's own published price, as found.
Notes on all reseller prices:
"From" prices are the lowest variant the page shows; resolution and quality change the price.
Where a reseller's price for a model differs from the maker's own price, both are shown as found, with their sources and dates.
Operator names come from each platform's own terms or privacy page, read November 9, 2026.
API resellers (pay per image)
fal
(operator: Features & Labels, Inc.)
Nano Banana 2 $0.08 per image · Nano Banana Pro $0.15 · Nano Banana $0.0398 · FLUX.1 [schnell] $0.003 per megapixel
GPT Image 2 is listed at $1 per "unit"; the page does not define the unit in images, so no per-image figure is shown.
GPT Image 2 $0.053 per image · Nano Banana Pro $0.134 · Nano Banana 2 $0.05 · Nano Banana 2 Lite $0.069 · FLUX.2 [pro] $0.03 · Ideogram 4.0 $0.06
Observation: Together lists Nano Banana 2 Lite at $0.069, while Google's own page lists Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image at $0.0336 per 1K image. Both shown as found.
Image models are priced per token. Nano Banana 2.1 image output $30 per 1M tokens; Gemini 3 Pro Image $120 per 1M tokens. These match Google's own per-token rates on the dates checked.
Higgsfield's pricing page showed different plans and prices on different reads on November 9, 2026. Each set is listed as shown (monthly / billed annually, per month).
11:10 AM AST: Basic $5 / $5, 70 credits · Pro $29 / $23, 600 credits · Max $79 / $59, 1,800 credits
Worked out: about $0.077 to $0.098 per Nano Banana Pro image on the middle plan, depending on which set is shown ($23 / 300 images on Pro billed annually, to $49 / 500 on Plus monthly).
List / billed annually, per month: AI Starter $19.99 / $11.99 (16,500 credits, up to 1,650 images) · AI Core $39.99 / $23.99 (40,000, up to 4,000) · AI Creator $69.99 / $41.67 (80,000, up to 8,000)
Plan cards, billed annually: Lite $15.00/mo (400 credits) · Pro $29.00 (800) · Ultra $129.00 (5,000)
Observation: during a "Flash Sale 50% Off", the comparison table on the same page shows $12.00, $14.50 and $99.00 a month for the same credit amounts. Both shown as found.
Listed, per-image rates not captured (dated observations)
PiAPI (operator: Interastral Peace Limited, Hong Kong): plan fees are Creator $15/mo and Pro $60/mo with bonus credits; API usage is billed separately, and per-model image rates were not in the page as read November 9, 2026.
Segmind (operator: Segmind Inc.): plans are Pro $39/mo and Business $99/mo with matching credits; per-model image rates are on model pages, not the pricing page, as read November 9, 2026.
EvoLink (operator: EVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, Hong Kong): credits are about $0.0147 each; image model rates were not in the captured price table, as read November 9, 2026.
Spot a price that changed? Report the change. Prices are updated only when the new figure can be read on the vendor's own page.
Common questions
How much does Midjourney cost per image?
Midjourney sells GPU time, not images. On Basic ($10 a month), Midjourney's pricing page says you get about 200 image jobs, and each job makes four images, so the math works out to about $0.0125 per image if you use the whole allowance. Checked November 9, 2026 against Midjourney's pricing page.
What is the cheapest AI image API on this page?
On the official pages listed here, FLUX 3 Image Klein at 768 x 768 is $0.008 per image (Black Forest Labs, checked November 9, 2026). Some resellers list lower figures for other models, such as Runware's FLUX 3 Image Klein at 512 x 512 for $0.003. Image size, quality and your keep rate change the real cost.
How much does GPT Image cost per image?
OpenAI bills GPT Image by tokens. Its own calculator shows $0.02469 in output cost for one GPT Image 2.6 image at low quality and 1024 x 1024. Text input and image input tokens are extra. Checked November 9, 2026 against OpenAI's API pricing and image generation guide.
Do unused credits roll over?
On the pages checked: Midjourney Fast time does not carry over, Ideogram subscription credits expire each billing cycle, and Krea's Basic, Pro and Max units do not roll over. Leonardo's paid plans have a rollover bank with a cap (25,500 tokens on Essential). Top-up credits follow separate rules on each site.
What is a keep rate?
The share of generated images you actually use. If you keep 1 in 4, you pay for 4 images to get one, so the cost per kept image is 4 times the cost per image. The calculator does this math.
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