Fantasy Warrior

Text-to-Image Portrait

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

Winning image by Nano Banana 2 for Fantasy Warrior

#1 — Nano Banana 2

Prompt

“Close portrait of a battle-worn paladin in ornate engraved plate armor, hair braided with small beads, faint scars and dirt on the skin, warm torchlight reflecting off metal, shallow depth of field, bokeh sparks, lifelike eyes, highly detailed texture on leather straps and cloth underlayer.”

Challenge Rankings

21 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Speed	Elo
1	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢		1292
2	ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview) Vyro AI	$$	3¢	—	1272
3	Lucid Origin Leonardo AI	$$	2¢	—	1253
4	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢		1237
5	FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo fal	$	0.8¢		1237
6	Recraft V4 Recraft AI	$$	4¢		1234
7	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	$$$	6.5¢	—	1234
8	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢		1218
9	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢		1212
10	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢		1203
11	GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI	$	0.5¢		1196
12	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.2¢		1192
13	Recraft V4 Pro Recraft AI	$$$$	25¢	—	1188
14	FLUX.2 [dev] Flash fal	$	0.5¢		1177
15	HiDream I1 Fast HiDream AI	$	0.5¢	—	1174
16	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢		1154
17	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢		1140
18	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢		1131
19	Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001 Google	$$	2¢		1100
20	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢		1093
21	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢		1077

Google's Nano Banana 2 leads the challenge with an 81.3% win rate and a 1292 Elo, maintaining a 55-point lead over premium-tier models like Nano Banana Pro (1237 Elo). Despite a significantly lower price point, the $0.008/image FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo matches the 1237 Elo of more expensive counterparts while delivering results nearly four times faster.