AI image models compared All on one QynTro account

Grok vs GPT Image vs Nano Banana

Grok Imagine from xAI, GPT Image from OpenAI and Nano Banana from Google all turn a written prompt into a picture. QynTro runs all three on one account, so here they are side by side: what each one does, what a picture costs today, and real pictures made with each.

Short answer Pick Grok Imagine for five shapes up to 16:9, as PNG files. Pick GPT Image for up to 10 pictures a run and for posters and covers. Pick Nano Banana for Google's most detailed pictures and photo edits up to 4K. Or try one prompt on all three.

Puddle Jump - made with Grok Imagine 2.0
Grok ImagineGrok Imagine 2.0
The Animal Fair - made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare
GPT ImageGPT Image 2.5 Flare
Weather Whale - made with Nano Banana Pro
Nano BananaNano Banana Pro
At a glance

Grok Imagine vs GPT Image vs Nano Banana, side by side

What Grok Imagine GPT Image Nano Banana
Made byxAIOpenAIGoogle
Versions on QynTro153
Newest versionGrok Imagine 2.0GPT Image 2.5 FlareNano Banana Pro
Pictures from a promptGrok Imagine 2.0All five versionsNano Banana Pro and Nano Banana
PriceOne price per pictureOne price per pictureOne price per picture
Newest version from5 credits Grok Imagine 2.0 · per picture2 credits GPT Image 2.5 Flare · per picture24 credits Nano Banana Pro · per picture
Cheapest picture5 credits Grok Imagine 2.0 · per picture2 credits GPT Image 2.5 Flare · per picture5 credits Nano Banana · per picture

Prices are in media credits and are the ones the tools charge today; each tool shows the exact number before you make anything. A failed generation gives its credits back. See plans and credit packs

Which to pick

Pick by the job

Pick Grok Imagine if…

  • You want five shapes to pick from: square, portrait 3:4 and 9:16, and landscape 4:3 and 16:9.
  • You want PNG files: every picture comes at 1K as a PNG.
  • You want several at once: up to 10 pictures a run.

Pick GPT Image if…

  • You make posters, covers and thumbnails: write the words that should appear in the picture into the prompt.
  • You edit your own photos: GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst work in Image Editing, with up to 14 photos.
  • You are on a plan: PLUS includes 30 and MAX 60 GPT Image Mini pictures a day, on top of the plan's credits.

Pick Nano Banana if…

  • You want Google's most detailed pictures: Nano Banana Pro.
  • You edit photos up to 4K: Nano Banana 2 takes up to 14 source photos and returns 0.5K to 4K.
  • You want quick, low-cost pictures: the original Nano Banana.
Real results

Made on QynTro with each

Nothing here is a stock sample: each one was made on QynTro, and its page shows the exact prompt, so you can run it again with any of these models.

Grok Imagine by xAI

Puddle Jump - made with Grok Imagine 2.0
Puddle JumpGrok Imagine 2.0

Candid 35mm film street photograph: a young dancer in a lime-green tracksuit leaps over a puddle on a sunny big-city street corner, a yellow taxi blurred behind her, hard…

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Red Coat, Green Scooter - made with Grok Imagine 2.0
Red Coat, Green ScooterGrok Imagine 2.0

Candid 35mm film portrait: an elderly woman in a red wool coat laughs as she rides a mint-green scooter down a narrow sunlit Roman alley, laundry lines and shutters overhead, hard…

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Surfacing - made with Grok Imagine 2.0
SurfacingGrok Imagine 2.0

Overhead 35mm photograph: a young swimmer in a lime-green swim cap bursts up through the surface of a turquoise outdoor pool, water droplets frozen in the air around her, hard…

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Orange at Sundown - made with Grok Imagine 2.0
Orange at SundownGrok Imagine 2.0

Candid 35mm film photograph, vertical: a young man in a cobalt-blue tracksuit sits on the edge of an empty loading dock at sunset, peeling an orange and laughing at something off…

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GPT Image by OpenAI

The Animal Fair - made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare
The Animal FairGPT Image 2.5 Flare

A one-sheet theatrical film poster for an invented stop-motion family fantasy titled THE ANIMAL FAIR, shot to look like real handmade puppets and sets rather than CGI…

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Orbit Nine - made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Orbit NineGPT Image 2.5 Flare

A one-sheet theatrical film poster for an invented retro science fiction epic titled ORBIT NINE, designed as if painted in 1979. Composition: a colossal ringed gas giant fills the…

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Motherboard - made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare
MotherboardGPT Image 2.5 Flare

A one-sheet theatrical film poster for an invented cyber-noir titled MOTHERBOARD. Composition: a narrow rain-soaked alley at night in an unnamed megacity, shot straight down its…

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Sunday Drivers - made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Sunday DriversGPT Image 2.5 Flare

A one-sheet theatrical film poster for an invented 1970s car-chase crime picture titled SUNDAY DRIVERS, designed as a hard-edged graphic split rather than a single photograph…

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Nano Banana by Google

Weather Whale - made with Nano Banana Pro
Weather WhaleNano Banana Pro

A single enormous humpback whale made entirely of shifting storm cloud and internal lightning, swimming through the sky above a small coastal town at dusk. Rain falls only in the…

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Departure Gardens - made with Nano Banana
Departure GardensNano Banana

A commercial airliner parked at a jungle airstrip, completely overgrown, and its fuselage has been converted into a greenhouse: the entire upper hull replaced with curved glass…

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The Breakwater Hours - made with Nano Banana Pro
The Breakwater HoursNano Banana Pro

Cinematic square teaser poster composition with no text. A lighthouse keeper in a heavy oilskin stands at the base of a concrete lighthouse, centred, shot from low and straight…

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Winter Tenants - made with Nano Banana
Winter TenantsNano Banana

Cinematic square teaser poster composition with no text. An elderly woman sits at a kitchen table by a window in a harbour flat, in profile, a cup of tea in front of her, the…

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FAQ

Grok Imagine vs GPT Image vs Nano Banana: questions

Which is best: Grok Imagine, GPT Image or Nano Banana?
It depends on the picture. Grok Imagine offers five shapes as PNG files; GPT Image makes up to 10 pictures a run and suits posters and covers; Nano Banana Pro is Google's most detailed image model, and Nano Banana 2 edits photos at up to 4K. On QynTro one account runs all three, so you can try the same prompt on each and keep the one you like.
Which is cheapest?
Today the cheapest Grok Imagine picture costs 5 credits (Grok Imagine 2.0, per picture), the cheapest GPT Image picture 2 credits (GPT Image 2.5 Flare, per picture) and the cheapest Nano Banana picture 5 credits (Nano Banana, per picture). Prices are in media credits per picture, and you pay only for the pictures that come back.
Can they edit my photos?
Photo editing runs in Image Editing, where GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst and Nano Banana 2 each take up to 14 photos, and Nano Banana 2 returns 0.5K to 4K. Grok Imagine 2.0 makes pictures from a prompt. Image Editing is open to accounts that have bought a plan or a credit pack.
Can Grok Imagine make videos on QynTro?
No. On QynTro, Grok Imagine 2.0 makes pictures only. For video, see the video models, such as Kling, Veo and Seedance.
Do I need an xAI, OpenAI or Google account?
No. QynTro runs Grok Imagine, GPT Image and Nano Banana for you, so there is no xAI, OpenAI, ChatGPT or Google account, key or subscription to set up. Your QynTro credits cover all three.
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