Text-to-image model comparison
Antique Brass Pocket Watch — Text-to-Image Battle
Same still prompt, five image models — which frame is best before Veo image-to-video?
Model Battle — practical buyer test, not a scientific benchmark.
The prompt
Extreme close-up photograph of a hand holding an ornate antique brass pocket watch under a single warm desk lamp in a dim study at night. Intricate hand-engraved floral patterns on the watch case catch and scatter warm lamplight, fine dust motes visible in the light beam, shallow depth of field with softly blurred bookshelves in the background. Cinematic macro photography, rich shadow detail, warm color grade, photorealistic, 16:9 composition, no text, no watermarks.
Outputs — side by side
Full-resolution stills from public/battles/image-battles/antique-brass-pocket-watch-t2i/ — one folder per model with prompt.txt and cost.txt.
Nano Banana 2
usablefal.ai · wrapper · 1 attempts · €0.07
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. Endpoint: fal-ai/nano-banana-2
Nano Banana Pro
usablefal.ai · wrapper · 1 attempts · €0.14
Google Gemini 3 Pro Image. Endpoint: fal-ai/nano-banana-pro
FLUX.2 Pro
usablefal.ai · wrapper · 1 attempts · €0.05
Black Forest Labs photoreal tier. Endpoint: fal-ai/flux-2-pro
Seedream 5.0 Lite
usablefal.ai · wrapper · 1 attempts · €0.03
ByteDance fast image tier. Endpoint: fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v5/lite/text-to-image
Seedream 5.0 Pro
usablefal.ai · wrapper · 1 attempts · €0.06
ByteDance flagship image tier. Endpoint: bytedance/seedream/v5/pro/text-to-image
Verdict
Winner
Seedream 5.0 Pro
Cheapest usable
Seedream 5.0 Lite
Image Battle #1 — Seedream 5.0 Pro wins on value at $0.0675/run; Nano Banana Pro best pure quality at $0.15. One attempt each via fal.ai. Full ranking on /image-models/battles/antique-brass-pocket-watch-t2i.
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