FLUX.1 dev/schnell/pro — the open-weights image model that broke the SD-3 stalemate in 2024 and remains the dev community standard.
From Wikipedia
Flux is a text-to-image model developed by Black Forest Labs (BFL), based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Black Forest Labs was founded by former employees of Stability AI. As with other text-to-image models, Flux generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts.