Which AI image model does faces and hands best
Faces and hands are the old tells. We asked 36 models for the same portrait, a woman in her 40s laughing with a red mug in both hands, and looked at the fingers before anything else. The grid includes the September 18 additions; each model page dates its own run.
Anvisha Pai, Co-founder & CEO, Voyager
What the side-by-side shows
Every model on the roster now clears the finger test on this prompt, which was not true a year ago. Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2.5 Flare give the most natural skin and window light. FLUX.2 Max and Seedream 5.0 Pro are close. The differences are now about taste: Ideogram 4.0's laugh is wide open, Recraft V4.1's eyes are squeezed shut, Seedream 5.0 Lite read the brief as a different woman, and Recraft V3 has a softer, stock-photo feel. None of the nine 22 October additions drew a wrong hand that we could see; Krea 3's window-lit portrait is the most natural of them. Ideogram Vector makes an illustrated laughing portrait with both hands around the red mug rather than a photograph.
- 1.Nano Banana Pro natural skin, window light and hands that grip the mug.
- 2.GPT Image 2.5 Flare a real laugh with correct fingers and a knitted sleeve.
- 3.FLUX.2 Max warm, filmic and anatomically clean.
- 4.Seedream 5.0 Pro a convincing portrait with a good grip.
Every image model on this prompt, 35 pictures
One try each, nothing re-rolled or retouched, generated by us. Ranked models come first; the rest follow in family order. Open a model for the rest of its set.
›The prompt every model got
Close-up portrait of a woman in her 40s with short grey hair, laughing, holding a red ceramic mug with both hands, natural window light, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field.
A natural face, correct finger count and hands holding an object.
natural skin, window light and hands that grip the mug.
a real laugh with correct fingers and a knitted sleeve.
warm, filmic and anatomically clean.
a convincing portrait with a good grip.
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Frequently asked questions
Which AI image generator is best for realistic faces?
On this portrait, Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2.5 Flare were the most natural, with FLUX.2 Max and Seedream 5.0 Pro close. Every model got the fingers right.
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