Imagen 4 launch post cover

No longer available

The publisher shut this model down on August 17, 2026. It can no longer be used from its own API. Recommended replacement: gemini-nano-banana-2.1. Publisher notice

Cost

Pricing
Not published
Released
1y ago

Benchmarks

Arena leaderboards rank models of this kind from pairwise human votes. Missing scores mean the model has not been ranked, not that it scored zero.

How it ranks

Against its predecessor, similarly priced models and the models ranked around it.

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Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #46

  1. 1138
    Seedream 4.0Similar release date
  2. 1132
    Recraft V4.1 ProNearby rank
  3. 1128
    Krea 2 MediumNearby rank
  4. 1128
    Imagen 4
  5. 1116
    Recraft V4Nearby rank
  6. 1115
    GPT Image 1Similar release date
  7. 1057
    Imagen 3Predecessor
  8. 1049
    Ideogram 3.0Similar release date
  9. 941
    FLUX.1 Kontext [dev]Similar release date

+71 vs Imagen 3 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 models released around the same time

All published scores

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

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