GPT Image 1 OpenAI GPT Image 1.5 OpenAI

Settled by community votes across 1 shared challenge, with an AI judge weighing in on each.

GPT Image 1

13.3 arena score

#19 of 23 in Image Editing

Skill signature

Not enough comparable category data

The chart appears once both models have ratings across at least three shared arena categories.

GPT Image 1.5

26.5 arena score

#7 of 44 in Text-to-Image

Top 3 in Image Editing

Vote tally

Where the votes landed

GPT Image 1

100.0%

win rate

Ties

0.0%

GPT Image 1.5

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.

Outfit Transfer Challenge

Editing

Edit instruction

“Use Image 1 as the base person. Dress them in the exact elaborate outfit from Image 2 (including all layers, accessories, jewelry, and shoes). Carefully adapt the clothing to the body shape and pose in Image 1 while maintaining realistic fabric behavior, correct proportions, and perfect lighting/shadow matching. Keep the person’s exact face, hair, and background completely unchanged.”

Source

GPT Image 1

GPT Image 1.5

100% wins 0% ties 0% wins

AI Judge Analysis

GPT Image 1

+ Excellent preservation of the person's face, skin markings, and facial features.
+ Accurately replicates the coat texture and the specific plaid pattern of the scarf.
+ Maintains the background lighting and grain of the source image well.

− The scarf is missing the fringe tassels visible in the target outfit.
− The watch chosen (leather strap) does not match the gold metal link watch from the target image.

GPT Image 1.5

+ Includes the fringe tassels on the scarf and the gold link watch from the target outfit.
+ Captures the full-body pose including the jeans and leg positioning reasonably well.

− Crops out the top half of the person's face, failing the instruction to keep the person's exact face unchanged.
− The skin marking on the chin does not match the original person's vitiligo pattern.
− Missing the sand on the skin that was present in the source image.

Verdict: GPT Image 1 is the clear winner because it fulfills the core requirement of preserving the person's identity and facial features while successfully transferring the complex wardrobe. GPT Image 1.5 failed the most basic constraint of the prompt by cropping out the subject's face and failing to maintain the specific skin pigment details from the source image.