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	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1212
4	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1212
5	GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI	$	0.5¢	1208
6	ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview) Vyro AI	$$	3¢	1204
7	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.2¢	1201
8	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1189
9	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1188
10	Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001 Google	$$	2¢	1188
11	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1186
12	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1174
13	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1168
14	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1166
15	Qwen Image 2512 Alibaba	$$	2¢	1160
16	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1157
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¢	1076

Nano Banana Pro leads the photorealistic street photography challenge with a 1243 Elo and 78.6% win rate, maintaining a 22-point gap over ByteDance’s Seedream 4.5. Notably, the budget-tier GPT Image 1 Mini outperforms more expensive current-generation models like FLUX.2 [pro] and Recraft V4 Pro despite a significantly lower $0.005/img price point.