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
Skill signature
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Seedream 4.5
26.1
arena score
#10 of 44 in Text-to-Image
Vote tally
Where the votes landed
FLUX.1 [dev]
100.0%
win rate
Ties
0.0%
Seedream 4.5
0.0%
win rate
100.0%
0.0% ties
0.0%
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]
Seedream 4.5
100% wins
0% ties
0% wins
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [dev]
- + Features a cohesive thorn border as requested.
- + Strong artistic illustration style with vibrant glowing lighting.
- − Significant spelling errors in the main title.
- − Unnecessary repetition of the time and typos in the location text.
Seedream 4.5
- + Excellent text rendering with accurate spelling throughout.
- + Effective cinematic lighting and atmospheric foggy background.
- + Correctly incorporates all requested elements including webs, thorns, and banner.
- − The thorns are positioned at the bottom rather than framing the image as a border.
- − The layout is a bit top-heavy with the text placement.
Verdict: Seedream 4.5 delivers a superior product for an invitation due to its near-perfect text rendering and atmospheric cinematic quality. While FLUX.1 [dev] has a nice illustrative style, its failure to spell the primary title and event details correctly makes it less functional.
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ByteDance's latest image generation model unifying text-to-image and image editing in a single architecture, with improved text rendering and 30-40% faster generation than v4.0