Candid Street Photography
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Photorealism
24 models were given the same prompt, and the community voted blind on which outputs looked best. How it works
#1 — GPT Image 1 Mini
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
| # | Model | Elo |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1252 | |
| 2 | 1245 | |
| 3 | 1243 | |
| 4 | 1235 | |
| 5 | 1222 | |
| 6 | 1221 | |
| 7 | 1215 | |
| 8 | 1209 | |
| 9 | 1209 | |
| 10 | 1205 | |
| 11 | 1193 | |
| 12 | 1188 | |
| 13 | 1185 | |
| 14 | 1184 | |
| 15 | 1170 | |
| 16 | 1168 | |
| 17 | 1166 | |
| 18 | 1164 | |
| 19 | 1157 | |
| 20 | 1153 | |
| 21 | 1151 | |
| 22 | 1133 | |
| 23 | 1127 | |
| 24 | 1113 |
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GPT Image 1 Mini leads the photorealism challenge with 1252 Elo, maintaining a 7-point lead over Seedream 5.0 Lite while costing 85% less per image. Despite a higher price tier ($0.067/img), Nano Banana Pro achieves the highest win rate at 78.6%, though it trails the top spot by 9 Elo points.
Elo vs Cost
Elo vs Speed
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Competitors
24 models, ranked by Elo
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Highlighted Battles
The most competitive head-to-head matchups, selected by closeness and vote count.
