Bald man challenge

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

#1 — Nano Banana

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

14 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1246
2	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1224
3	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1215
4	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1202
5	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1187
6	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1165
7	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1162
8	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1148
9	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢	1144
10	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1143
11	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1138
12	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1126
13	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1112
14	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	999