Sorted by (action, media, tier, quality_rank ASC). Updated from Artificial Analysis + LMArena leaderboards.
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview | low | 2026-04-24 | Nano Banana 2. |
| 2 | openai | gpt-image-1-mini | low | 2026-04-24 | |
| 3 | grok | grok-imagine-image | low | 2026-04-24 | Aurora. |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3-pro-image-preview | high | 2026-04-24 | Nano Banana Pro. Cross-gen: no 3.1-pro-image as of 2026-04-18. |
| 2 | openai | gpt-image-1.5 | high | 2026-04-24 | Cross-gen: no gpt-image-1.5-mini yet. |
| 3 | grok | grok-imagine-image-pro | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview | low | 2026-04-24 | |
| 2 | grok | grok-imagine-video | medium | 2026-04-24 | Single tier — same model for poor and rich. |
| — | openai | ERROR | low | 2026-04-24 | Sora 2 API shutdown 2026-09-24. |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | veo-3.1-generate-preview | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| 2 | grok | grok-imagine-video | medium | 2026-04-24 | |
| — | openai | ERROR | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview | low | 2026-04-24 | |
| 2 | openai | gpt-5.4-mini | low | 2026-04-24 | |
| 3 | grok | grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning | low | 2026-04-24 | |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| 2 | openai | gpt-5.4 | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| 3 | grok | grok-4.20-0309-reasoning | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview | low | 2026-04-24 | Native multimodal; no dedicated video leaderboard. |
| — | grok | ERROR | low | 2026-04-24 | Prod 4.20-0309-v2 image-only. |
| — | openai | ERROR | low | 2026-04-24 | GPT-5.4 image-only; extract frames or use gemini. |
| Rank | Provider | Model ID | Cost | Last verified | Notes |
|---|
| 1 | gemini | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| — | grok | ERROR | high | 2026-04-24 | |
| — | openai | ERROR | high | 2026-04-24 | |
