Same prompt, every model
Elderly potter's hands at work
The same prompt, sent to every model.
Short answer
For this prompt, Grok Imagine 2.0 produced the best image (4.3/5). Krea 2 Turbo was the fastest (3.7 s) and Krea 2 Turbo the cheapest ($0.0080). All 10 models received the identical prompt and settings.
Last tested
Close-up documentary photo of an elderly woman's wrinkled hands shaping wet clay on a spinning pottery wheel, with clay slip on her fingers. Warm window light; her smiling face is softly out of focus in the background.
What this tests
- Exactly two hands with five fingers each, natural anatomy
- Visible age: wrinkles, veins and knuckle detail
- Wet clay and slip look physically real
- Sharp hands with a softly blurred face behind them
Quality vs. price
Each dot is one model's image for this prompt: higher is better, further left is cheaper.
| Model | Score | Price per image |
|---|---|---|
| FLUX.2 [dev] | 3.33 | $0.01 |
| FLUX.2 [pro] | 3.00 | $0.03 |
| GPT Image 2 | 4.00 | $0.17 |
| Grok Imagine 2.0 | 4.33 | $0.06 |
| Ideogram V4.5 | 4.33 | $0.06 |
| Krea 2 Turbo | 3.67 | $0.008 |
| Nano Banana Pro | 3.33 | $0.15 |
| Qwen Image 3 | 3.67 | $0.04 |
| Recraft V4.1 | 3.67 | $0.04 |
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | 4.33 | $0.1 |
Quality vs. time to image
Wait for this image, including queue time: higher is better, further left is faster.
| Model | Score | Time to image |
|---|---|---|
| FLUX.2 [dev] | 3.33 | 14 s |
| FLUX.2 [pro] | 3.00 | 11 s |
| GPT Image 2 | 4.00 | 101 s |
| Grok Imagine 2.0 | 4.33 | 53 s |
| Ideogram V4.5 | 4.33 | 9.5 s |
| Krea 2 Turbo | 3.67 | 3.7 s |
| Nano Banana Pro | 3.33 | 27 s |
| Qwen Image 3 | 3.67 | 75 s |
| Recraft V4.1 | 3.67 | 11 s |
| Seedream 5.0 Pro | 4.33 | 40 s |
Editor pending · AI 3.3 · $0.012 · 13.8 s (2.9 s generating)
AI judge: Two wrinkled hands with clay slip shaping a small pot, warm window light and a smiling face in the background. The right hand fingers are stubby and clumped with clay blobs, and the face is only mildly blurred. The overall rendering looks over-processed and less photographic.
Editor pending · AI 3.0 · $0.030 · 10.8 s
AI judge: Very detailed aged skin and realistic wet clay, with the face softly blurred and cropped behind. The hands are interlocked confusingly, and a blurred extra hand or fist at lower left reads as a third hand. That breaks the exactly-two-hands requirement.
Editor pending · AI 4.0 · $0.171 · 101.1 s
AI judge: Two sharp, heavily wrinkled hands with five-finger anatomy and wet grey slip, with a softly blurred smiling face behind. The window light is fairly cool rather than warm. An odd clay wedge shape behind the pot is a minor defect.
Editor pending · AI 4.3 · $0.060 · 53.1 s
AI judge: Two aged, wrinkled hands with wet slip shaping a pot on a visibly spinning wheel, with a smiling face softly blurred behind and warm window light. Left-hand fingers are slightly bunched and hard to count. Overall convincing documentary feel.
Editor pending · AI 4.3 · $0.060 · 9.5 s
AI judge: Two heavily wrinkled hands with visible knuckles and clay slip, sharp in front of a softly blurred smiling face in warm window light. Five fingers per hand are plausible, but the clay-caked thumbs look oversized and lumpy. Clay surface looks slightly dry rather than wet.
Editor pending · AI 3.7 · $0.0080 · 3.7 s (1.0 s generating)
AI judge: Two aged hands with convincing wrinkles, knuckles and clay slip, in warm window light. However the smiling face is nearly as sharp as the hands rather than softly out of focus, so the close-up hands-first framing is missed. Anatomy is plausible, though the clay looks slightly dry.
Editor pending · AI 3.3 · $0.150 · 27.5 s
AI judge: Attractive film-like studio scene with wrinkled hands, slip and window light. Only one hand is clearly visible with an ambiguous extra thumb, so the two-hand requirement is unclear, and the face is off to the edge rather than softly behind the hands. It reads more as a medium shot than a close-up.
Editor pending · AI 3.7 · $0.040 · 74.6 s
AI judge: Two hands with plausible finger counts and strong age detail (wrinkles, knuckles), clay slip and a convincingly spinning wheel in warm window light. The skin wrinkling is somewhat exaggerated and crackled. The face is cropped at the eyes and not softly blurred behind the hands as requested.
Editor pending · AI 3.7 · $0.035 · 11.4 s
AI judge: Close-up of two very aged, veined hands with wet slip on a spinning wheel, smiling face blurred behind and window light. The left hand fingers merge into the clay and finger count is unclear. Clay looks wet and glossy as requested.
Editor pending · AI 4.3 · $0.101 · 40.5 s
AI judge: Two aged hands with visible wrinkles, veins and knuckles shape clay on the wheel, with slip on the fingers, and her smiling face is softly blurred behind. The visible fingers are anatomically plausible, though thumbs are hidden and the clay looks a bit dry and smooth rather than wet. Warm window light fits the documentary look.