Nano Banana 2 Lite leads on human preference — 1261 vs 1165 Elo (#5 of 158 in the Image Arena). The right pick still depends on style, speed and licensing — details below.
Bytedance Seedream V4.5 Text To Imagefal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4.5/text-to-imagevs
Nano Banana 2 Lite✓google/nano-banana-2-lite| Human-preference Elo | 1165 | 1261 |
| Arena rank | #34 of 158 | #5 of 158 |
| Category | text-to-image | text-to-image |
| License | commercial | commercial |
By human preference, Nano Banana 2 Lite currently rates higher (1261 vs 1165 Elo). Preference votes measure typical output quality; test both on your own prompts for style fit.
Both are text to image models available as hosted API endpoints — Bytedance Seedream V4.5 Text To Image (fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4.5/text-to-image) and Nano Banana 2 Lite (google/nano-banana-2-lite).
See the full best text-to-image models ranking.