FP8 quantized variant of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 [schnell] model, offering ~2x faster inference with reduced precision while maintaining high-quality image generation in 4 steps
Settled by community votes across 1 shared challenge, with an AI judge weighing in on each.
FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8
17.8
arena score
#36 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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Seedream 4.0
24.6
arena score
#16 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8
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Seedream 4.0
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Shared challenges
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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 [schnell] FP8
Seedream 4.0
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8
- + Strong cinematic lighting on the central jack-o-lantern.
- + Clean, legible font choice for the main heading.
- − Numerous spelling errors in the banner and event details (e.g., 'A ai nigh tof friights', 'Tine').
- − Border lacks the requested webs and thorns, appearing more like plain parchment edges.
- − Composition feels slightly empty in the bottom half.
Seedream 4.0
- + Excellent adherence to all visual prompts, including thorny borders and spiderwebs.
- + Text accuracy is high, correctly rendering the date, time, and location as requested.
- + Atmospheric composition with realistic textures on the trees and pumpkin.
- − Minor text distortion on the smaller scroll banner ('invitcd').
- − The border thorns appear somewhat repetitive and overlay the parchment harshly in the corners.
Verdict: Seedream 4.0 followed the prompt much more accurately, including all specific decorative elements like the thorns and webs while maintaining high text accuracy for the event details. FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8 struggled significantly with text rendering and missed several key atmospheric prompts, resulting in a generic layout with many typos.
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