Best AI model for stickers and icons
Die-cut stickers, emoji-style characters and flat app icons on a plain background.
Best for stickers and icons
GPT Image 2
- 30%chance of ranking first
- GPT Image 2.5 Sunburstrunner-up
Judge's most likely first pick; first on 2 of 10 requests.
Judge agreement 0.63
Tested requests, made with GPT Image 2
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sticker of a corgi astronaut floating with a tiny planet, thick white die-cut border, vibrant colours, cartoon style
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flat app icon for a meditation app, a simple lotus inside a rounded square, gradient from lavender to teal, no text
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Vintage-style round badge sticker of a mountain with pine trees and a sunrise, distressed texture, three colours, no text
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Holographic-looking sticker of a retro cassette tape with rainbow gradient edges, bold black outline, white background
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 | Credits per imageCredits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT Image 2 |
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30% | 41.7 | 5.32 | 5 |
| 2 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst |
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18% | 41.3 | 5.29 | 2 |
| 3 | Luma UNI-1 |
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8% | 40.3 | 5.19 | 2 |
| 4 | Nano Banana Pro |
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7% | 41.8 | 5.05 | 5 |
| 5 | Nano Banana 2 |
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7% | 41.4 | 5.28 | 3 |
| 6 | Flux 2 Pro |
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7% | 42.4 | 5.12 | 1 |
| 7 | Nano Banana |
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7% | 41.8 | 5.21 | 2 |
| 8 | Seedream 5.0 Pro |
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5% | 39.6 | 5.31 | 2 |
| 9 | Kling 3.0 Image |
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4% | 40.9 | 5.49 | 1 |
| 10 | Ideogram 4.5 |
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4% | 40.4 | 5.15 | 3 |
| 11 | Hunyuan V3 |
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2% | 41.4 | 5.22 | 3 |
| 12 | Recraft V4.1 |
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2% | 40.9 | 5.06 | 2 |
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
3 of 10 first picks for GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst; 8 models won at least one. GPT Image 2 (2 of 10) still ranks first on every placement.
Follows the prompt most closely
42.4 mean CLIP similarity: Flux 2 Pro, closest to the prompt.
Looks best to the aesthetic model
5.49 of 10 on the aesthetic predictor: Kling 3.0 Image.
Most consistent of the top four
±0.44 log-strength: Luma UNI-1 has the narrowest error bar of the top four.
How stable the judge was
0.63 Kendall tau between two shuffled judge runs (1 identical, 0 unrelated).
What the judge saw
We judge clean edges, simple readable shapes and a style that still works at a small size. Best first; the judge saw them shuffled and unlabelled.
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Die-cut sticker of a smiling cup of boba tea with a chunky white border, kawaii style, pastel purple, white background
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flat app icon for a meditation app, a simple lotus inside a rounded square, gradient from lavender to teal, no text
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Set of six minimal line icons for a travel app: suitcase, airplane, map pin, camera, passport, sun; consistent thin strokes, black on white, arranged in a grid
Show the other 7 requests
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emoji style sticker of a cute ghost waving, glossy, thick outline, plain white background
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Vintage-style round badge sticker of a mountain with pine trees and a sunrise, distressed texture, three colours, no text
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cute sticker pack vibe, a sleepy sloth hugging a coffee mug, pastel, bold outline
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Weather icon set in a soft 3D clay style: sun, rain cloud, snowflake, lightning, rainbow, moon; pastel colours, white background, arranged in two rows
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Holographic-looking sticker of a retro cassette tape with rainbow gradient edges, bold black outline, white background
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A single flat icon of a shopping cart for an e-commerce app, two-tone orange, rounded corners, centred on a plain white background, clean and simple
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sticker of a corgi astronaut floating with a tiny planet, thick white die-cut border, vibrant colours, cartoon style
How this was measured
- Same requests. 10 stickers and icons 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 shown as checks.
Questions people ask
- Which AI model is best for stickers and icons?
- GPT Image 2 (OpenAI): 30% chance of ranking first on 10 stickers and icons requests, ahead of GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst at 18%, out of 12 models tested the same way.
- Is GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst as good as GPT Image 2 for stickers and icons?
- Close: their 95% error bars overlap (GPT Image 2 +1.27 to +2.24, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst +0.63 to +1.99 log-strength), so on 10 requests GPT Image 2 is only the more likely winner.
- How was the best model for stickers and icons measured?
- Same 10 requests to every model; a blind AI judge ranked the outputs twice, shuffled (agreement between runs: Kendall tau 0.63, where 1 is an identical order and 0 unrelated); Plackett-Luce ratings with 95% bootstrap error bars, CLIP and aesthetic scores as checks.