Nano Banana 2 vs Qwen Image Edit 2511

Head-to-head across 1 challenge

Nano Banana 2

48.5%

win rate

Ties

6.1%

Qwen Image Edit 2511

45.5%

win rate

48.5% 6.1% ties 45.5%

Challenge Results

Man and Car in California

Editing
Edit instruction

“Make a photo of the man driving the car down the California coastline”

Source
Nano Banana 2
Qwen Image Edit 2511
48% wins 6% ties 45% wins

AI Judge Analysis

Nano Banana 2

  • + Perfect preservation of the specific Rolls Royce car model from the source.
  • + High consistency with the man's hair and facial features.
  • + Cinematic composition showing the motion of the car on the coastline.
  • The man's outfit is partially simplified compared to the source.
  • The car appears to be right-hand drive while on a right-hand traffic road.

Qwen Image Edit 2511

  • + Excellent preservation of the man's specific plaid jacket, scarf, and hairstyle.
  • + The perspective creates an intimate 'in-the-car' feel.
  • + High-quality rendering of hands on the steering wheel.
  • Failed to preserve the specific car brand/model (Rolls Royce) from the source image.
  • The interior dashboard design changed significantly from the source.

Verdict: Nano Banana 2 is the better edit because it manages to merge both source images—the specific Rolls Royce and the specific person—into a coherent scene. Qwen Image Edit 2511 does a fantastic job of preserving the man's clothing and likeness, but it completely replaces the car with a generic interior, failing the source preservation aspect of the car image.

Nano Banana 2

Gemini 3.1 Flash with image generation capabilities. High-efficiency image generation model with support for text rendering, reference images, search grounding, and thinking mode. The efficient counterpart to Gemini 3 Pro Image.

Qwen Image Edit 2511

Alibaba's Qwen image editing model for instruction-based image modifications and transformations