Man and Car in California

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 Nano Banana Pro for Man and Car in California

#1 — Nano Banana Pro

Edit instruction

“Make a photo of the man driving the car down the California coastline”

Challenge Rankings

13 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Speed	Elo
1	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢		1291
2	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢		1291
3	Wan 2.6 Alibaba	$$	3¢		1269
4	Qwen Image Edit 2511 Alibaba	$$	3¢		1269
5	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢		1265
6	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢		1263
7	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢		1259
8	FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs	$$$	6¢		1251
9	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢		1239
10	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢		1222
11	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢		1189
12	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢		1173
13	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	—	1136

Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 1.5 share the top rank at 1291 Elo, though GPT Image 1.5 achieves this position at a significant price advantage, costing roughly 86% less per image than the lead Google model. Alibaba’s Qwen Image Edit 2511 remains competitive at 1269 Elo, matching the performance of models with significantly slower generation times while maintaining a "Fast" speed rating.