GenAI image showdown (Text2Image)

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35 models

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A painting of a powerful angelic blacksmith holding a molten halo with a pair o…

Two Prussian soldiers wearing spiked pith helmets are facing each other and pla…

A man with only four fingers on one hand and six fingers on his other hand.

A digital illustration of a star with exactly 9 points.

A flat earth-like planet which resembles a flat disc is overpopulated with peop…

A historical oil painting of Alexander the Great riding a hippity hop toy into …

A raytraced scene with five solid colored cubes. The red cube is stacked on the…

A real octopus with each tentacle covered by a sock puppet.

A frustrated Einstein fighting a Eureka moment - the sparking idea light-bulb f…

A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue…

A four panel comic which depicts a person calmly driving down the road when a h…

A fantasy illustration of an arctic pirate on the bridge of their galleon ship.…

A standard 2d maze with a single clearly marked exit and a single clearly marke…

A twenty-sided die (D20) with the first twenty prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 1…

“A painting of a powerful angelic blacksmith holding a molten halo with a pair of metallic tongs and striking it with a holy blacksmith's hammer upon a celestial anvil.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“Two Prussian soldiers wearing spiked pith helmets are facing each other and playing a game of ring toss by attempting to toss metal rings over the spike on the other soldier's helmet.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A man with only four fingers on one hand and six fingers on his other hand.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A digital illustration of a star with exactly 9 points.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A flat earth-like planet which resembles a flat disc is overpopulated with people. The people are densely packed together such that they are spilling over the edges of the planet. The darkly satirical headline reads: 'Real estate is assessed via concentric pricing bands becoming progressively cheaper as one moves closer to the outer rim.'”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A historical oil painting of Alexander the Great riding a hippity hop toy into battle. The hippity hop toy was a old children's toy that looked like a giant rubber ball that a child could straddle and hold onto rubber handles.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A raytraced scene with five solid colored cubes. The red cube is stacked on the blue cube. The blue cube is stacked on the green cube. The green cube is stacked on a purple cube. The purple cube is stacked on a yellow cube. So the order from top to bottom is: red, blue, green, purple, yellow. The cubes are partially translucent and made of glass.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A real octopus with each tentacle covered by a sock puppet.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A frustrated Einstein fighting a Eureka moment - the sparking idea light-bulb floats above his head, flickering and only dimly illuminating a partially obscured chalkboard with Schrödinger's equation written on it, ĤΨ = EΨ.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue, green, purple, and yellow in that exact order.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue, green, purple, and yellow in that exact order. — GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue, green, purple, and yellow in that exact order. — Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue, green, purple, and yellow in that exact order. — Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

A photo of a brightly colored coral snake but with the bands of color red, blue, green, purple, and yellow in that exact order. — Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A four panel comic which depicts a person calmly driving down the road when a happy bee suddenly shows up looking through their driver side window. In the next panel the bee is inside the vehicle and the driver completely overreacts, swatting wildly at the bumblebee in abject terror. The car spins out of control careening off a cliff as the bee serenely flies out of the window.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A fantasy illustration of an arctic pirate on the bridge of their galleon ship. The pirate has a stilted peg leg made out of pure ice and wields a cutlass.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A standard 2d maze with a single clearly marked exit and a single clearly marked entrance. A dashed line indicates the successful route through the maze.”

GPT Image 2

GPT-5.4 Image 2

GPT Image 1.5 (High Fidelity)

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro)

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

riverflow-v2-pro

Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash)

Seedream 5.0 Lite

Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash)

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

“A twenty-sided die (D20) with the first twenty prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71) on the faces.”