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 for Bald man challenge

#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

15 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1306
2	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1257
3	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1255
4	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1246
5	Qwen Image Edit 2511 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1230
6	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1225
7	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1221
8	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1212
9	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	1211
10	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1200
11	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1191
12	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1165
13	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢	1155
14	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢	1136
15	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1131

Google's Nano Banana leads the challenge with 1306 Elo, maintaining a 49-point gap over its cheaper and slower successor, Nano Banana 2. Despite the higher cost, Nano Banana Pro (1255 Elo) fails to outperform the standard Nano Banana model in both speed and overall ranking.