Photorealism
How 20 AI image models render: “An adult on a jungle safari in his car, with a leopard lurking behind him in the bushes”
Same prompt, sent verbatim, at each model's default settings and a fixed seed. Judge: could this be a photograph? Skin, light, lens behaviour. 120 community votes so far.
Community prompt by @uma · voting closed 2026-09-21
20 text-to-image models rendered this photorealism prompt with the identical text at their default settings and a fixed seed. GPT Image 2 is the community favourite so far, winning 86% of its 14 head-to-head votes on this prompt. Grok Imagine Image Quality was the fastest at 5.6s.
What to look for: believable skin and fabric, physically plausible light and shadow, lens behaviour such as depth of field and motion blur, and no waxy or over-smoothed surfaces.
- GPT Image 286%OpenAI59.9s · 60 cr Try
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare79%OpenAI22.3s · 28 cr Try
- Krea 2 Large75%Krea28.7s · 80 cr Try
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst73%OpenAI32.8s · 28 cr Try
- Nano Banana 2 Lite69%Google16.9s · 36 cr Try
- Seedream 5.0 Pro69%ByteDance22.3s · 49 cr Try
- ImagineArt 267%ImagineArt33.9s · 60 cr Try
- Kling v3 Omni50%Kuaishou31.8s · 35 cr Try
- Muse Image 1.046%Meta17.3s · 12 cr Try
- ImagineArt 1.5 Pro45%ImagineArt62.4s · 55 cr Try
- 33%18.1s · 50 cr Try
- Krea 2 Medium33%Krea15.0s · 40 cr Try
- Recraft v4 Pro33%Recraft13.5s · 300 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.0 Pro29%Alibaba10.0s · 36 cr Try
- Ideogram v425%Ideogram14.2s · 40 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.025%Alibaba16.2s · 32 cr Try
- 5.6s · 80 cr Try
- Midjourney Niji 713%Midjourney135.0s · 160 cr Try
- Recraft v40%Recraft10.5s · 45 cr Try
FAQ
- Which AI model renders this prompt best?
- GPT Image 2 leads with 86% of 14 blind votes on this prompt. Vote on the arena page to add your judgement.
- Were the prompts adjusted per model?
- No. Every model received the exact same prompt, unmodified, at its default settings, with no negative prompt or style suffix. Some models rewrite prompts internally, and that is part of what is being compared.
- Can I run this prompt myself?
- Yes. Each tile’s “Try” link opens the BudgetPixel workshop with this prompt and that model preselected.