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Re:Nano Banana Pro by Wyverald on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:22PM (#45997178)
thanks, I love your website. Are you planning to do NB Pro for the text-to-image benchmark too?
Re:Nano Banana Pro by vunderba on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:35PM (#45997361)
Definitely! Even though NB's predominant use case seems to be editing, it's still producing surprisingly decent text-to-image results. Imagen4 currently still comes out ahead in terms of image fidelity, but I think NB Pro will close the gap even further.

I'll try to have the generative comparisons for NB Pro up later this afternoon once I catch my breath.

Re:Nano Banana Pro by vunderba on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:24PM (#45999798)
Outside the time frame of being able to edit my original reply, but I've finally re-run the Text-to-Image portion of the site through NB Pro.

  Results

  gpt-image-1: 10 / 12 
  Nano Banana Pro: 9 / 12
  Nano Banana: 8 / 12
It's worth mentioning that even though it only scored slightly better than the original NB, many of the images are significantly better looking.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net?models=nb,nbp

Re:Nano Banana Pro by Wyverald on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:41PM (#45999896)
thanks for the update. One small note: for the d20 test, NB Pro had duplications of 13 and 17 too, not just 19.
Re:Nano Banana Pro by vunderba on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:42PM (#46001001)
Good catch - I've been staring at these images so long day I'm starting to get the equivalent of "Tetris Effect"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

Re:Nano Banana Pro by happyopossum on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:33AM (#46001804)
Awesome test suite. For the maze though, not sure it’s fair to knock it for extra dashed lines as the prompt didn’t specify that only the correct path should have one…