Luma AI Launches Uni-1, a Unified Image Model Priced at $0.09 per 2K Image, Challenging Google Nano Banana

Luma AI released Uni-1, a single transformer model for image understanding and generation. It ranks first in human preference tests for style/editing and reference tasks, and is priced lower than Google's Nano Banana models. Luma AI Launches Uni-1, a Unified Image Model Priced at $0.09 per 2K Image, Challenging Google Nano Banana Luma AI has publicly released Uni-1, its first model that unifies image understanding and generation within a single autoregressive transformer architecture. The model is now available for free testing on the Luma Labs platform, with an API launch imminent.