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ModelMade byRating
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic4.7/5
Eleven v4 and v4 TurboElevenLabs4.7/5
GPT Image 2.5 (Flare and Sunburst)OpenAI4.7/5
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic4.6/5
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI4.6/5
Nano Banana 2.1Google4.6/5
Voyage rerank-3Voyage AI (MongoDB)4.6/5
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic4.5/5

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