The Halloween Invitation

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

While rendering simple text is no longer a real challenge for today’s SOTA models, this test shows something more interesting: how much visual taste a model has, and whether it can create a layout that feels like it came from a professional designer instead of a basic Canva template (no offense to Canva).

Blind Vote This Challenge

#1 — FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Prompt

“Vintage gothic Halloween party invitation. Dark parchment poster, spooky border with webs and thorns, central glowing jack-o-lantern, bats, twisted trees, moody night sky. Add elegant gothic title text saying "Halloween Party Invitation", a small scroll banner saying "You are invited to a night of frights", and event details at the bottom: Date: 30.10.2026 Time: 7pm Location: The Arches, NYC Spooky but polished, cinematic lighting, square format.”

Voters were asked to judge by Visual Taste Text Accuracy Layout

Challenge Rankings

7 models

#	Model	Price	¢/img	Speed	Elo
1	FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Black Forest Labs	$	0.1¢		1152
2	Nano Banana Pro Google	$$$	6.7¢		1126
3	Qwen Image 2.0 Alibaba	$$	3.5¢		1099
4	Seedream 4.5 ByteDance	$$	4¢		1081
5	FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo fal	$	0.8¢		1080
6	Qwen Image 2.0 Pro Alibaba	$$$	7.5¢		1079
7	GLM-Image Z.ai	$$$	5¢	—	1048

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B leads the challenge with an 1152 Elo, demonstrating superior design layout and text integration at a fraction of the cost ($0.001/img) of its high-end competitors. Despite a higher 75% win rate, Nano Banana Pro trails by 26 Elo points while being over 60 times more expensive and significantly slower.