Candid Street Photography

Text-to-Image Photorealism

23 models were given the same prompt, and the community voted blind on which outputs looked best. How it works

Winning image by Nano Banana Pro for Candid Street Photography

#1 — Nano Banana Pro

Prompt

“A candid street photo of an elderly Japanese man repairing a red bicycle in light rain, reflections on wet pavement, shallow depth of field, 50mm lens, natural skin texture, imperfect framing, motion blur from passing cars, cinematic but realistic, no stylization.”

Challenge Rankings

23 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1243
2	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1221
3	GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI	$	0.5¢	1219
4	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1212
5	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1212
6	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1189
7	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1188
8	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1181
9	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.2¢	1174
10	ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview) Vyro AI	$$	3¢	1171
11	Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001 Google	$$	2¢	1168
12	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1168
13	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1164
14	Qwen Image 2512 Alibaba	$$	2¢	1160
15	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1157
16	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1147
17	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	1143
18	FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo fal	$	0.8¢	1139
19	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	$$$	6.5¢	1133
20	FLUX.2 [dev] Flash fal	$	0.5¢	1127
21	FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs	$$$	6¢	1119
22	Recraft V4 Pro Recraft AI	$$$$	25¢	1103
23	Imagen 4.0 Ultra Generate 001 Google	$$$	6¢	1079

Nano Banana Pro leads the photorealism challenge with 1243 Elo and a 78.6% win rate, maintaining a 22-point lead over Seedream 4.5. Notably, the budget-tier GPT Image 1 Mini ($0.005/img) effectively matches the performance of premium models with 1219 Elo, despite costing less than 8% of the leader's price.