“I want designs with real text”
Posters, flyers, social thumbnails and wordmarks where rendered text is the content, produced by your users or your automation. One misspelled headline makes the asset unusable.
Recommended models
| Use-case score | Criteria covered | $ / image | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Seedream 5.0 Lite Best fit | 4.35 / 5 | 100% | $0.020 |
| 2. Nano Banana 2 Lite | 4.34 / 5 | 100% | $0.020 |
| 3. Seedream 4.5 | 4.31 / 5 | 100% | $0.048 |
| 4. GPT Image 1.5 | 4.16 / 5 | 100% | $0.120 |
| 5. Nano Banana 2 | 4.15 / 5 | 100% | $0.100 |
| 6. FLUX.2 | 4.13 / 5 | 100% | $0.013 |
| 7. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image | 4.12 / 5 | 100% | $0.039 |
| 8. FLUX.2 [pro] | 4.06 / 5 | 100% | $0.040 |
| 9. FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo | 4.06 / 5 | 100% | $0.015 |
| 10. Qwen-Image | 3.97 / 5 | 100% | $0.030 |
| 11. Ideogram 3.0 | 3.84 / 5 | 100% | $0.060 |
| 12. Nano Banana Pro | 3.82 / 5 | 100% | $0.360 |
| 13. Luma Photon | 3.68 / 5 | 100% | $0.019 |
| 14. Recraft V3 | 3.42 / 5 | 100% | $0.040 |
| 15. Stable Diffusion 1.5 | 2.03 / 5 | 100% | $0.010 |
How this is weighted
When the text is the content, nothing else can compensate for a broken glyph, so text accuracy takes several times the weight of any other criterion. Composition and adherence follow because a poster with perfect type still fails when the layout ignores the brief; the remaining criteria stay light because typography failures are the reason these jobs get regenerated.
- Text Accuracy 40%
- Composition 15%
- Prompt Adherence 10%
- Color Accuracy 10%
- Resolution 10%
- Cost 10%
- Latency 5%
The evidence: Seedream 5.0 Lite
Seedream 5.0 Lite takes the top spot where this job puts its weight: text accuracy at 4.9 / 5 (40% of the matrix), composition at 4.9 / 5 (15% of the matrix) and resolution at 5.0 / 5 (10% of the matrix).
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The last mile: what no model delivers
Even the best model here occasionally breaks a line or drops a character, and every model below the top tier misspells routinely. Baked-in AI text cannot be corrected without regenerating the whole image. The reliable pattern is generating the visual and keeping headlines as editable text layers on a canvas, where a human or a template fixes the last word.
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