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
arena score
#42 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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Recraft V4
26.4
arena score
#8 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.1 [dev]
0%
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Recraft V4
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Shared challenges
1
Challenge by challenge
The strongest take from each model on every shared challenge, with the AI judge's read.
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]
Recraft V4
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [dev]
- + Strong cinematic lighting with a vibrant color palette.
- + Crisp vector-style illustration details in the border and trees.
- + Excellent focal point with a highly stylized, glowing jack-o-lantern.
- − Major text errors include 'Lalloween Rantcl' and redundant time values.
- − The invitation details look like a font overlay rather than part of the design.
- − Missing the cobweb element requested in the prompt.
Recraft V4
- + Perfect text rendering for all requested information, including headers and details.
- + Incorporate all prompt elements including webs, thorns, bats, and twisted trees.
- + Features a superior vintage artistic style with a moody, rained-on parchment feel.
- − The small scroll banner is a bit plain and lacks the 'gothic' flair of the surrounding text.
- − The overall composition is centered but slightly crowded with the number of bats.
Verdict: Recraft V4 is the clear winner as it followed every instruction, including complex text rendering with zero spelling errors and incorporating the web/thorn mixture for the border. While FLUX.1 [dev] produced a visually striking image with high contrast, its failure to spell the primary title correctly and the exclusion of cobwebs makes it less effective as a functional invitation.
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