Luma Uni-1
reasoning-first generation, quietly competent at editing
a decent reasoning-first model whose editing punches above its overall standing — but photon is long gone and the cheap tier's output isn't commercially usable.
first, a correction to a lot of stale coverage: photon is not luma's current image model. uni-1 replaced it in march, with uni-1.1 following on the api in may. anything recommending luma photon is out of date.
uni-1 reasons about the prompt before generating, and uni-1 max sits ninth on artificial analysis' editing leaderboard — a better showing than its overall generation ranking, which suggests editing is where the reasoning pays off.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai image models
- pricing
- $0.0404 / image at 2048px; uni-1-max $0.10
- website
- lumalabs.ai
a decent reasoning-first model whose editing punches above its overall standing — but photon is long gone and the cheap tier's output isn't commercially usable.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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