Photorealism
How 22 AI image models render: “A stillshot from a Bulgarian football game, broadcast in the 1980s.”
Same prompt, sent verbatim, at each model's default settings and a fixed seed. Judge: could this be a photograph? Skin, light, lens behaviour. 76 community votes so far.
Community prompt by @slex29 · voting closed 2026-10-06
22 text-to-image models rendered this photorealism prompt with the identical text at their default settings and a fixed seed. GPT Image 2.5 Flare is the community favourite so far, winning 80% of its 5 head-to-head votes on this prompt. Grok Imagine Image Quality was the fastest at 5.7s.
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 2.5 Flare80%OpenAI20.3s · 40 cr Try
- 75%24.3s · 50 cr Try
- Muse Image 1.071%Meta49.3s · 12 cr Try
- Seedream 5.0 Pro70%ByteDance30.1s · 49 cr Try
- 5.7s · 80 cr Try
- Nano Banana 2 Lite67%Google9.6s · 36 cr Try
- Krea 2 Medium67%Krea16.9s · 40 cr Try
- ImagineArt 255%ImagineArt44.4s · 60 cr Try
- GPT Image 243%OpenAI43.7s · 42 cr Try
- Ideogram v4.540%Ideogram15.3s · 80 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.038%Alibaba7.2s · 32 cr Try
- Krea 2 Large33%Krea34.3s · 80 cr Try
- ImagineArt 1.5 Pro30%ImagineArt51.3s · 55 cr Try
- Ideogram v429%Ideogram17.7s · 40 cr Try
- Kling v3 Omni25%Kuaishou86.9s · 35 cr Try
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst20%OpenAI34.1s · 40 cr Try
- Recraft v4 Pro20%Recraft · retired from voting16.3s · 300 cr Try
- Qwen Image 3.0 Pro18%Alibaba10.2s · 36 cr Try
- Seedream 5.0 FlashByteDance33.4s · 22 cr Try
- FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs23.9s · 32 cr Try
- Recraft v4Recraft · retired from voting13.2s · 45 cr Try
FAQ
- Which AI model renders this prompt best?
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare leads this prompt in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena, winning 80% of its 5 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.