Best AI model for posters and flyers
Event posters, quote cards and promo flyers where the headline must be readable and spelled right.
Best for posters and flyers
GPT Image 2
- 25%chance of ranking first
- Ideogram 4.5runner-up
- 50%text spelled right
Judge's most likely first pick; text spelled right on 5 of 10.
Low on credits?
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (OpenAI) is in the top 3, its error bar overlaps GPT Image 2's, and it uses fewer credits per image.
Open GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst insteadJudge agreement 0.67
Tested requests, made with GPT Image 2
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Promo flyer for a shoe store sale, headline "Midnight Deals" in huge neon letters on a dark background, sneakers floating around the text
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A gallery exhibition poster with the title "Shapes Of Silence" in a large Swiss-style grotesque font, abstract overlapping colour blocks in ochre, navy and white, lots of whitespace
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Concert poster for an indie folk night, big headline "Autumn Sessions" in hand-lettered type, a lone guitar silhouette against a warm sunset, textured paper look
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tech meetup flyer, headline "Build Night", dark mode vibe, glowing geometric shapes, leave room at the bottom for the details
All 12 models, ranked
Strength is the Plackett–Luce rating fitted to the judge's rankings, centred at 0; the bar is the 95% bootstrap interval. Overlapping bars mean a tie.
| # | Model | Strength | Ranks first | Prompt match | Looks | Text exact | Credits per imageCredits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT Image 2 |
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25% | 42.6 | 4.92 | 50% | 5 |
| 2 | Ideogram 4.5 |
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17% | 43.0 | 4.81 | 60% | 3 |
| 3 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst |
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13% | 42.2 | 4.94 | 50% | 2 |
| 4 | Seedream 5.0 Pro |
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9% | 41.1 | 4.84 | 90% | 2 |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 |
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8% | 42.5 | 5.02 | 100% | 3 |
| 6 | Nano Banana Pro |
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8% | 41.9 | 5.04 | 90% | 5 |
| 7 | Luma UNI-1 |
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6% | 40.2 | 4.83 | 80% | 2 |
| 8 | Nano Banana |
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5% | 42.1 | 5.00 | 100% | 2 |
| 9 | Recraft V4.1 |
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4% | 39.2 | 4.77 | 80% | 2 |
| 10 | Kling 3.0 Image |
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2% | 41.0 | 4.78 | 60% | 1 |
| 11 | Flux 2 Pro |
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2% | 42.9 | 4.82 | 80% | 1 |
| 12 | Hunyuan V3 |
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1% | 41.0 | 4.69 | 40% | 3 |
Narrow screens hide prompt match and looks, and show credits under each model name. Credits per image are Picsart's own estimate on the benchmark settings.
Best for
Computed from the benchmark data, not written by hand.
Wins the most requests
4 of 10 first picks for GPT Image 2; 7 models won at least one.
Spells the text right
100% of requests spelled exactly: Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana (read back with OCR).
Follows the prompt most closely
43.0 mean CLIP similarity: Ideogram 4.5, closest to the prompt.
Looks best to the aesthetic model
5.04 of 10 on the aesthetic predictor: Nano Banana Pro.
Most consistent of the top four
±0.44 log-strength: Ideogram 4.5 has the narrowest error bar of the top four.
How stable the judge was
0.67 Kendall tau between two shuffled judge runs (1 identical, 0 unrelated).
What the judge saw
We check the words with OCR and judge layout, hierarchy and style. Best first; the judge saw them shuffled and unlabelled.
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Concert poster for an indie folk night, big headline "Autumn Sessions" in hand-lettered type, a lone guitar silhouette against a warm sunset, textured paper look
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GPT Image 2
judge 2.0 text off
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Nano Banana 2
judge 2.5 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 3.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 3.0 text off
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Nano Banana
judge 5.5 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 6.5 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 6.5 text off
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 8.0 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 9.0 text off
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 9.0 text off
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Hunyuan V3
judge 11.0 text off
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 12.0 text off
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farmers market flyer with the words "Fresh Saturdays", baskets of vegetables, bright and cheerful
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 2.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 2.5 text off
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Nano Banana 2
judge 3.0 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 4.0 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 4.5 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 5.5 text off
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 6.5 text off
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 8.0 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 9.0 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 10.0 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 11.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 12.0 text off
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Minimal quote card, the phrase "Begin Again" centred in a thin serif on a soft gradient of dusty pink and peach, nothing else
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 1.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 3.0 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 4.0 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 4.0 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 5.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 5.5 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 7.0 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 7.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 9.0 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 9.5 text exact
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Nano Banana 2
judge 11.0 text exact
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 12.0 text exact
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Show the other 7 requests
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Movie-style poster for a sci-fi thriller titled "Orbital Drift": an astronaut floating above a blue planet, dramatic rim light, bold metallic title at the bottom
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Nano Banana 2
judge 1.5 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 2.5 text exact
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 3.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 4.5 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 4.5 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 5.0 text off
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 7.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 8.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 9.0 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 9.5 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 11.0 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 12.0 text off
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Promo flyer for a shoe store sale, headline "Midnight Deals" in huge neon letters on a dark background, sneakers floating around the text
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GPT Image 2
judge 1.5 text off
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 1.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 3.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 3.5 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 5.0 text off
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Luma UNI-1
judge 6.0 text off
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Nano Banana 2
judge 7.0 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 8.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 9.0 text off
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Recraft V4.1
judge 10.0 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 11.0 text off
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Hunyuan V3
judge 12.0 text off
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Charity run poster, text "Harbor Dash", runners on a seaside road at dawn, clean modern layout
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 1.5 text exact
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Nano Banana 2
judge 2.5 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 3.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 3.5 text off
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Luma UNI-1
judge 6.0 text exact
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 6.5 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 6.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 7.0 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 8.5 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 10.0 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 11.0 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 12.0 text exact
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A gallery exhibition poster with the title "Shapes Of Silence" in a large Swiss-style grotesque font, abstract overlapping colour blocks in ochre, navy and white, lots of whitespace
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GPT Image 2
judge 1.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 1.5 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 3.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 4.5 text exact
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 5.0 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 6.0 text exact
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Nano Banana 2
judge 6.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 8.0 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 9.5 text exact
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 9.5 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 11.0 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 12.0 text off
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tech meetup flyer, headline "Build Night", dark mode vibe, glowing geometric shapes, leave room at the bottom for the details
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GPT Image 2
judge 2.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 2.0 text off
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 3.0 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 3.5 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 4.5 text off
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 6.0 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 7.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 8.0 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 9.0 text exact
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Nano Banana 2
judge 9.5 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 11.0 text off
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 12.0 text exact
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Retro summer camp poster saying "Pine Ridge Camp", pine trees around a lake, a canoe, 1960s travel poster style, limited palette of green, mustard and cream
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 1.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 2.5 text off
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 3.0 text off
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 4.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 5.0 text off
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Nano Banana 2
judge 6.5 text exact
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Nano Banana
judge 6.5 text exact
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Recraft V4.1
judge 7.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 8.5 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 10.0 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 10.5 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 12.0 text off
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Open mic night flyer, the words "Loud Whispers" in bold brush lettering, a vintage microphone under a spotlight, deep red and black
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Recraft V4.1
judge 2.5 text exact
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GPT Image 2
judge 4.0 text exact
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Nano Banana Pro
judge 4.0 text exact
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Hunyuan V3
judge 4.5 text exact
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Luma UNI-1
judge 5.5 text off
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Nano Banana 2
judge 6.0 text exact
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Ideogram 4.5
judge 6.5 text off
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Nano Banana
judge 6.5 text exact
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Seedream 5.0 Pro
judge 7.0 text exact
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
judge 9.0 text off
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Flux 2 Pro
judge 10.5 text exact
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Kling 3.0 Image
judge 12.0 text off
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How this was measured
- Same requests. 10 poster and flyer prompts, written like real users write, sent to 12 models from Picsart's AI Playground.
- Blind judge, twice. An AI judge ranked each request's outputs without model names, then again reshuffled.
- Error bars. Plackett–Luce ratings bootstrapped over requests; CLIP, an aesthetic predictor and OCR shown as checks.
Questions people ask
- Which AI model is best for posters and flyers?
- GPT Image 2 (OpenAI): 25% chance of ranking first on 10 posters and flyers requests, ahead of Ideogram 4.5 at 17%, out of 12 models tested the same way.
- Is Ideogram 4.5 as good as GPT Image 2 for posters and flyers?
- Close: their 95% error bars overlap (GPT Image 2 +1.04 to +2.22, Ideogram 4.5 +0.74 to +1.62 log-strength), so on 10 requests GPT Image 2 is only the more likely winner.
- Which AI model spells the text correctly in posters and flyers?
- Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana: the requested text exact on 100% of requests, read back with OCR and compared with the prompt.