Golden Hour Stroll

Image Editing Photorealism

13 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 Wan 2.6 for Golden Hour Stroll

#1 — Wan 2.6

Edit instruction

“Add dynamic motion to this photo: make hair blow in the wind, add leaves flying, energetic and lively feel.”

Challenge Rankings

13 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Speed	Elo
1	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢		1269
2	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢		1267
3	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢		1222
4	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢		1210
5	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢		1201
6	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢		1191
7	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢		1189
8	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢		1186
9	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢		1181
10	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢		1178
11	Qwen Image Edit 2511 Alibaba	$$	3¢		1177
12	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢		1155
13	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	—	1147

Wan 2.6 (1269 Elo) and Seedream 4.5 (1267 Elo) lead the challenge with win rates above 80%, establishing a 47-point Elo gap over the third-place GPT Image 1.5. Despite its premium price tier, Nano Banana Pro (1210 Elo) underperforms both GPT Image 1.5 and its significantly faster sibling, Nano Banana, which maintains a 62.5% win rate at a faster speed.