Human Creativity Benchmark - Ad Images (Ideation) - Prompt Adherence: leaderboard

Human Creativity Benchmark (Hopkins et al., 2026): professional creatives rate anonymized advertising images at the Ideation stage, where outputs should propose a promising creative direction. The score is the mean 1-5 rating of how faithful the output is to the prompt, over the evaluators and prompts of this domain and stage; higher is better.

Metric: Mean expert Likert rating (1-5) of faithfulness to the prompt; advertising images at the Ideation stage, rated by professional creatives. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT Image 1.53.5
2Flux 2 Pro3.27
3Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)3.13
4Seedream 4.52.93

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