Black Forest Labs' 12-billion parameter flow transformer for high-quality text-to-image generation, suitable for personal and commercial use with streaming support
Settled by community votes across 1 shared challenge, with an AI judge weighing in on each.
FLUX.1 [dev]
14.9
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#42 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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Nano Banana
24.0
arena score
#20 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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The Halloween Invitation
Text-to-Image“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.”
FLUX.1 [dev]
Nano Banana
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [dev]
- + Strong illustration style with bold, cinematic lighting
- + Creative thorn-path border that frames the central elements well
- − Major text hallucinations including 'Halloween Rant' instead of 'Invitation'
- − Repeats the time '7pm' twice and includes random periods and commas in the date
Nano Banana
- + Perfect text adherence with nearly flawless rendering of all requested details
- + Includes all requested elements like webs, thorns, and parchment textures correctly
- + Superior composition with a more legible and elegant gothic hierarchy
- − The parchment texture is slightly repetitive at the edges
- − The jack-o-lantern is a bit small relative to the overall frame
Verdict: Nano Banana significantly outperforms FLUX.1 [dev] by accurately rendering every specific line of text requested, whereas FLUX.1 [dev] struggled with spelling and formatting. Nano Banana's inclusion of spiders webs and the specific parchment texture also makes it a better match for the 'vintage' aspect of the prompt.
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