Magazine cover

Every model got the same prompt. Here's what 21 models made, best first.

Results

  1. Won

    Muse Image

    Score 91 · 4 wins, 0 losses · Judge 8.8/10

  2. #2 of 13

    GPT Image 2.5

    Score 80 · 1 win, 0 losses · Judge 9/10

  3. #3 of 13

    Grok Imagine Image

    Score 77 · 2 wins, 0 losses · Judge 8.4/10

From 21 blind votes by the Glif team and 13 AI judge scores. Scores are out of 100, and 50 is average for this test. See the full character consistency leaderboard

How we score

Scores on this page come from this test alone and compare only the models that ran it. Leaderboard scores pool every test of the same kind.

Every model runs the same Glif tests. Team members see two outputs side by side without the model names and pick the one that better fits the test, or call it a tie. An AI judge also scores every output from 0 to 10.

A Bradley-Terry fit turns all those head-to-head results into one rating per model. Ties count as half a win, and each AI judge score counts as half a vote.

The score is the predicted chance people prefer this model's output to the average model's on the same board, so 50 is average. A board is one kind of task, like text-to-image. Scores only compare models on the same board.

The 90% range comes from resampling the votes and refitting many times. Overlapping ranges are close to a tie. A model ranks once it has 20 votes' worth of ratings on a board. Until then it shows no score, only how close it is.

What we look for

Uses the exact same character and follows the brief. Good typography and layout.

Prompt

“A cover of a monthly magazine called "glif" featuring the woman from the reference image. Create a striking editorial magazine cover portrait that feels contemporary, intelligent, and fashion-forward. Place the large lowercase masthead "glif" across the top in a bold custom grotesk typeface, partially obscured by the subject’s head. Add a small issue number, barcode, date, and restrained cover lines such as: "THE NEW IMAGE MAKERS", "WHO GETS TO SHAPE THE MACHINE?", "CHARACTERS AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY", and "TOOLS, WORLDS & BEAUTIFUL ACCIDENTS". Typography should be crisp, editorial, and carefully integrated into the composition. Avoid clutter, fake logos, illegible text, excessive cover lines, generic technology imagery, and the polished look of a corporate AI advertisement. Vertical magazine cover, premium print design, visually arresting from a distance, believable as a real collectible first issue.”

Input

Tests for

Consistency, typography, composition