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Grok Imagine 2.0 vs MAI-Image-2.6

Grok Imagine 2.0 wins 69% of 85 direct comparisons against MAI-Image-2.6.

Both models received the same prompts. Wins and losses count only images judged together in the same call, the same comparisons the leaderboard Elo is fitted from.

Grok Imagine 2.0
XAI
1293 Elo ±53
Rank #5 of 42 · median 25s per image · 1 refused
50–17–18
wins – ties – losses for Grok Imagine 2.0
85 direct comparisons
Elo expectation: Grok Imagine 2.0 wins 70%
MAI-Image-2.6
Microsoft
1145 Elo ±59
Rank #10 of 42 · median 69s per image · 15 refused

By category

CategoryGrok Imagine 2.0MAI-Image-2.6Direct record
Anime & Cartoon Style 1302 1297 3–1–2
Architecture & Interiors 1330 1138 6–0–3
Complex Scenes 1425 1122 7–1–1
Ghibli style 1114 1490 1–0–0
Graphic Design 1280 1048 8–0–2
Hands & Anatomy 1175 1115 4–3–3
Photorealistic People & Portraits 1392 1115 6–4–1
Surreal & Creative Prompts 1313 1289 3–4–3
Text in Images 1350 1090 6–3–1
Ultra Hard 1438 1273 6–1–2

By criterion

CriterionGrok Imagine 2.0MAI-Image-2.6
Prompt adherence 1213 1110
Technical quality 1219 1102
Artistic merit 1191 1157
Detail execution 1256 1125
Realism & coherence 1229 1115

Side by side

Anime & Cartoon Style A 90s anime-style space battle scene with giant starships and laser beams.
A 90s anime-style space battle scene with giant starships and laser beams. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 9 / 10 One of the set's best images, distinguished by disciplined mechanical construction and unusually clean supporting graphics. It is slightly less immediately dramatic than the Earth-side destruction scene, but comparably accomplished in finish.
A 90s anime-style space battle scene with giant starships and laser beams. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 6 / 10 Ranks seventh of twelve, with stronger atmosphere and fleet scale than the lower-ranked scenes. Reduced mechanical clarity and a softer poster-like treatment hold it below the sharper, more explicitly cel-styled battles.
Architecture & Interiors A photorealistic interior of a modern Scandinavian-style living room with natural light streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows. Show detailed wood textures, fabric materials, and proper light reflections.
A photorealistic interior of a modern Scandinavian-style living room with natural light streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows. Show detailed wood textures, fabric materials, and proper light reflections. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 10 / 10 Rank 1 of 13: this is the most complete realization of the prompt, combining exceptionally resolved materials with coherent natural lighting. Its restrained styling and convincing construction reach professional interior-photography quality.
A photorealistic interior of a modern Scandinavian-style living room with natural light streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows. Show detailed wood textures, fabric materials, and proper light reflections. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 8 / 10 Rank 5 of 13: this is a convincing and well-styled Scandinavian interior with strong material differentiation. Slightly processed-looking upholstery and questionable stove clearance keep it below the best entries.
Complex Scenes A school classroom of children and a teacher, each student engaged in a different activity.
A school classroom of children and a teacher, each student engaged in a different activity. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 9 / 10 Ranked second of 13, this is exceptionally polished and compositionally balanced. It falls just behind the leading image because the teacher is less directly involved with the children and several broad activity categories repeat.
A school classroom of children and a teacher, each student engaged in a different activity. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 6 / 10 Ranked ninth of 13, this has stronger activity variety than the uniform-writing scenes but a conspicuous device-orientation error. That physical-coherence flaw, together with repeated writing poses, outweighs its otherwise polished presentation.
Ghibli style A child and elder tending oversized vegetables in a garden. Reproduce the artistic style of Studio Ghibli, with their distinctive character proportions and detailed plant illustrations.
A child and elder tending oversized vegetables in a garden. Reproduce the artistic style of Studio Ghibli, with their distinctive character proportions and detailed plant illustrations. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 9 / 10 Ranks first for the strongest combination of prompt fidelity, believable gardening activity, and accomplished environmental illustration. Slight visual crowding prevents a flawless overall result.
A child and elder tending oversized vegetables in a garden. Reproduce the artistic style of Studio Ghibli, with their distinctive character proportions and detailed plant illustrations. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 9 / 10 Ranked 1st of 13: this offers the best balance of faithful character design, convincing gardening gestures, and richly differentiated botany. Its consistency across anatomy, materials, composition, and emotional tone makes it the strongest complete interpretation.
Graphic Design The word 'GROWTH' visualized using stylized plant vines organically forming the letters, green tones, white background, graphic design.
The word 'GROWTH' visualized using stylized plant vines organically forming the letters, green tones, white background, graphic design. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 9 / 10 This is the runner-up, offering exceptionally clear typography and faithful vine-based construction. Its slightly repetitive embellishment places it behind the more expressive strongest image.
The word 'GROWTH' visualized using stylized plant vines organically forming the letters, green tones, white background, graphic design. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 5 / 10 This is visually clean but weakened by a consequential letterform problem. The ambiguous W prevents its otherwise appropriate styling from becoming a fully successful response.
Hands & Anatomy A person typing on a laptop keyboard, showing both hands on the keys.
A person typing on a laptop keyboard, showing both hands on the keys. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 6 / 10 The scene is polished at first glance, but the crowded foreground fingers are a noticeable weakness for this anatomy-focused task. Good lighting and framing do not fully compensate for the less convincing hand articulation.
A person typing on a laptop keyboard, showing both hands on the keys. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 3 / 10 Ranked 13th of 13, this is the weakest result because of its critical extra-hand problem. Attractive lighting and respectable textures cannot rescue the anatomical incoherence and distorted laptop.
Photorealistic People & Portraits A portrait of a person with elaborate facial tattoos and piercings, shown in sharp detail.
A portrait of a person with elaborate facial tattoos and piercings, shown in sharp detail. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 10 / 10 Rank 1 of 13: This is the strongest realization of the precision challenge, combining photographic credibility with exceptionally intricate, readable ornamentation. Its convincing anatomy, resolved jewelry, and controlled tattoo texture achieve professional-grade portrait quality.
A portrait of a person with elaborate facial tattoos and piercings, shown in sharp detail. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 6 / 10 Ranked twelfth for compelling mood but comparatively inconsistent precision. The gritty treatment competes with, rather than consistently supports, the requested sharp facial detail.
Surreal & Creative Prompts The Mona Lisa reimagined as a futuristic android, rendered in a digital art style that preserves Da Vinci's composition while incorporating sleek cyberpunk aesthetics and technological elements.
The Mona Lisa reimagined as a futuristic android, rendered in a digital art style that preserves Da Vinci's composition while incorporating sleek cyberpunk aesthetics and technological elements. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 8 / 10 Ranks fifth: the extensive mechanical redesign and accomplished detailing make this a compelling futuristic artwork. Its weaker preservation of the original draped figure and orientation keeps it below the strongest Mona Lisa-specific interpretations.
The Mona Lisa reimagined as a futuristic android, rendered in a digital art style that preserves Da Vinci's composition while incorporating sleek cyberpunk aesthetics and technological elements. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 9 / 10 Ranks first for its exceptionally cohesive balance of recognizable composition, inventive android design, and sophisticated environmental storytelling. It avoids the generic armor treatment and disconnected technological overlays seen in weaker entries.
Text in Images A wrinkled white T-shirt with "Carpe Diem" in bold serif font and "Seize The Day" in smaller script below it, modeled on a mannequin, professional product photography with soft-box lighting.
A wrinkled white T-shirt with "Carpe Diem" in bold serif font and "Seize The Day" in smaller script below it, modeled on a mannequin, professional product photography with soft-box lighting. - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 8 / 10 Ranks fourth of 13 as a strong, largely faithful commercial presentation. It trails the leading images in product emphasis and the subtle integration of lettering with wrinkles.
A wrinkled white T-shirt with "Carpe Diem" in bold serif font and "Seize The Day" in smaller script below it, modeled on a mannequin, professional product photography with soft-box lighting. - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 4 / 10 Ranked 13th of 13, this has competent photographic qualities but fails the central wording requirement. Because clear and accurate text is a primary purpose of the test, the missing 'Diem' outweighs the otherwise believable fabric.
Ultra Hard A realistic astronaut being ridden by a horse, photorealistic depiction in outer space with accurate lighting and proportions
A realistic astronaut being ridden by a horse, photorealistic depiction in outer space with accurate lighting and proportions - Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok Imagine 2.0 5 / 10 Fifth overall: its horse-above-astronaut arrangement is closer to the intended inversion than the ordinary riding scenes. However, an astronaut dangling from a horse's tack is not an astronaut being ridden by that horse, so the central relationship remains unresolved.
A realistic astronaut being ridden by a horse, photorealistic depiction in outer space with accurate lighting and proportions - MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 9 / 10 First overall: this is the clearest free-floating realization of the requested horse-on-astronaut reversal, with excellent lighting and material separation. Minor compression in the horse's tucked legs prevents a flawless score.

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