Nano Banana Pro contact sheet for Nate's Image Model Arena

Google

Nano Banana Pro

The premium one — highest fidelity, real typography, real money.

Google / 2K / 1:1 / google/gemini-3-pro-image-preview

40 prompts rendered by Nano Banana Pro

Same standard set, same framing, same model comparison surface.

Nineteen vs. forty, through the ages

Same eleven eras, two life stages, side by side: a group of fresh-faced nineteen-year-olds doing what the young did — hunts, dances, mosh pits, raves — next to middle-aged forty-year-olds doing what the settled did — harvests, workshops, offices, backyard parties. Different people, different lives, one timeline. Watch how each model handles youth vs. age across history.

Fashion, glamour, pinup

Editorial polish, neon glamour, old-Hollywood and couture, and a 1950s centerfold — faces, skin, fabric, and styling.

Product photography

Reflections, materials, and one duck modeling everything — the commercial-shot test, with a surreal closer.

Pets in the light

Small animals, soft light — the “make-it-adorable” test.

Food & cravings

A six-patty monster, two models eating it, and a humble popsicle dressed up like luxury perfume.

Worlds & abstract

A neon-cyberpunk country town and a geometric color explosion that melts — imagination over realism.

So — how did Nano Banana Pro do?

The premium one — highest fidelity, real typography, real money.

~20sper image
$0.14per image
40 / 40zero refusals
$5.53the whole set

Best-looking set here

The most convincingly photographic. Highest resolution of the five — the garage, the rain-slick cyberpunk street and the 1960s bathroom all read like real photographs, not renders.

Youth vs. age

The cleanest age read here: nineteen genuinely youthful, forty genuinely middle-aged, each in its own life-stage scene, all at its high fidelity — and the signs stay legible.

It can actually spell

The only non-Grok model with real type. The hybrid town glows “NEO-TOKYO COUNTRY,” “O’CONNELL’S FEED & SEED,” “GUI’S RAMEN” — crisp and correct — and it lettered the duck’s perfume “L’EAU DE CANARD.”

Best Google duck

It actually read the “model all three products” brief: the duck holds a multi-blade razor, stands on studded metallic Crocs, and the faceted perfume bottle is labelled. Closest of the Googles to the standalone product shots.

The expensive one

~$0.14/image, $5.53 for the set — roughly 3–4× Nano or Seedream, and slower. You are paying for the fidelity and the legible text.

Clean run

40/40, zero refusals. The pick when fidelity and readable type both have to land.