Imagen 3

Released
2024-08-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 179d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restricted
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Specifications
Family
Imagen
Released
2024-08-01
Specialization
image
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

About

Imagen 3 is Google DeepMind's Imagen model focused on image generation. It was released 2024-08-01.

Providers

No active provider routes are tracked for this model.

Deprecated provider routes(1)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
GCP Vertex AI
DeprecatedRetired June 30, 2026
imagen-3.0-generate-002

Available via routers & gateways(13)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSGCP Vertex AI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeGCP Vertex AI

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Capabilities

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Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena
1,057text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27
Configuration: Imagen 3 (generate-002)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'Imagen 3 (generate-002)': rank 65 of 82, Arena Score 1057.2 (95% CI 1053.9-1060.4), 359756 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

Migration checks

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