Photorealism
How 20 AI image models render: “Realistic image depicting great health in many ways. In the background, words related to health are hidden in plain sight.”
Same prompt, sent verbatim, at each model's default settings and a fixed seed. Judge: could this be a photograph? Skin, light, lens behaviour. 75 community votes so far.
Community prompt by @blanknamebp · voting closed 2026-09-26
20 text-to-image models rendered this photorealism prompt with the identical text at their default settings and a fixed seed. Grok Imagine Image 2 is the community favourite so far, winning 90% of its 10 head-to-head votes on this prompt. Grok Imagine Image Quality was the fastest at 7.1s.
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.
- 90%21.3s · 50 cr Try
- 7.1s · 80 cr Try
- ImagineArt 1.5 Pro63%ImagineArt50.8s · 55 cr Try
- Muse Image 1.060%Meta13.3s · 12 cr Try
- Recraft v450%Recraft21.7s · 45 cr Try
- Recraft v4 Pro50%Recraft14.6s · 300 cr Try
- Kling v3 Omni44%Kuaishou53.0s · 35 cr Try
- Nano Banana 2 Lite44%Google18.5s · 36 cr Try
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare43%OpenAI27.7s · 40 cr Try
- Ideogram v443%Ideogram23.0s · 40 cr Try
- Midjourney Niji 743%Midjourney119.2s · 160 cr Try
- Krea 2 Medium33%Krea28.7s · 40 cr Try
- ImagineArt 229%ImagineArt28.1s · 60 cr Try
- GPT Image 217%OpenAI62.3s · 60 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.0 Pro17%Alibaba12.4s · 36 cr Try
- Seedream 5.0 Pro13%ByteDance31.2s · 38 cr Try
- Krea 2 Large0%Krea34.5s · 80 cr Try
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst0%OpenAI39.6s · 40 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.0Alibaba7.1s · 32 cr Try
FAQ
- Which AI model renders this prompt best?
- Grok Imagine Image 2 leads this prompt in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena, winning 90% of its 10 blind head-to-head votes. 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.