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	Elo
1	Nano Banana 2 Google	$$	2.2¢	1281
2	Lucid Origin Leonardo AI	$$	2¢	1255
3	ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview) Vyro AI	$$	3¢	1238
4	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	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	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	1201
10	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1194
11	GPT Image 1 Mini OpenAI	$	0.5¢	1183
12	FLUX.2 [dev] Flash fal	$	0.5¢	1177
13	HiDream I1 Fast HiDream AI	$	0.5¢	1174
14	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.2¢	1171
15	Recraft V4 Pro Recraft AI	$$$$	25¢	1158
16	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1154
17	Reve Image 1.0 Reve AI	$$	4¢	1139
18	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1131
19	Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001 Google	$$	2¢	1103
20	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1093
21	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1077

Nano Banana 2 leads the portrait challenge with 1251 Elo, though GPT Image 1.5 offers a significantly higher 85.3% win rate at less than half the price. Lucid Origin (1238 Elo) provides the most competitive performance in the "fast" speed tier, nearly matching the top scores while generating images three times faster than the category leaders.