Heroic Super Hero Portrait

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

Winning image by Nano Banana for Heroic Super Hero Portrait

#1 — Nano Banana

Prompt

“Hyper-photorealistic full-body portrait of a female superhero standing triumphantly on a New York skyscraper rooftop at golden sunset, wearing a classic modest superhero costume with flowing cape, chest emblem, gloves, and boots in red and blue colors, practical design, short hair, strong determined heroic expression looking into the distance, powerful confident stance with hands on hips and cape billowing dramatically in the wind, detailed urban cityscape background, warm natural sunlight with sharp shadows and fabric highlights, ultra-sharp textures on suit, hair, and concrete, 8K masterpiece, empowering family-friendly style.”

Challenge Rankings

20 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Elo
1	Nano Banana Google	$$	3.9¢	1257
2	FLUX.2 [flex] Black Forest Labs	$$$	6¢	1253
3	ImagineArt 1.5 (Preview) Vyro AI	$$	3¢	1229
4	GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI	$	0.9¢	1211
5	Recraft V4 Pro Recraft AI	$$$$	25¢	1211
6	Imagen 4.0 Ultra Generate 001 Google	$$$	6¢	1199
7	FLUX.2 [pro] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.5¢	1194
8	Z-Image Turbo Alibaba	$	0.5¢	1186
9	FLUX.2 [max] Black Forest Labs	$$	3¢	1185
10	FLUX.2 [dev] Flash fal	$	0.5¢	1177
11	Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI	$$$	7¢	1177
12	Grok Imagine Image xAI	$$	2¢	1175
13	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢	1173
14	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢	1159
15	Seedream 4.0 ByteDance	$$	3¢	1141
16	FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo fal	$	0.8¢	1129
17	Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Stability AI	$$$	6.5¢	1122
18	Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance	$$	3.5¢	1108
19	FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs	$$	1.2¢	1067
20	HiDream I1 Fast HiDream AI	$	0.5¢	1000

Nano Banana leads the leaderboard with a 1257 Elo, narrowly edging out FLUX.2 [flex] by a 4-point margin despite the latter's significantly higher 67.7% win rate. Notably, the budget-friendly GPT Image 1.5 ($0.009/img) effectively matches the performance of the premium Recraft V4 Pro ($0.250/img) at an identical 1211 Elo.