Bald man challenge

15 models were given the same image and edit instruction, and the community voted blind on which outputs looked best. How it works

Blind Vote This Challenge

Winning image by Nano Banana Pro for Bald man challenge

#1 — Nano Banana Pro

Edit instruction

“Give the person a full, thick head of natural hair with realistic texture, density, and a natural hairline. Preserve facial features and lighting.”

Challenge Rankings

15 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1255
2	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1255
3	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1246
4	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1234
5	Qwen Image Edit 2511 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1225
6	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1222
7	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1221
8	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1205
9	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1200
10	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1185
11	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢	1161
12	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1157
13	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1140
14	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1131
15	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	1000

Google dominates the portrait editing category with Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2 sharing a top Elo of 1255, though the cheaper Nano Banana 2 achieves a higher 89.5% win rate. ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Lite remains highly competitive with an 89.6% win rate and a narrow 9-point Elo gap behind the leaders, despite being significantly slower than Google’s mid-tier offerings.