Human Creativity Benchmark - Ad Images (Mockup) - Usability: leaderboard

Human Creativity Benchmark (Hopkins et al., 2026): professional creatives rate anonymized advertising images at the Mockup stage, where a chosen direction is developed into a coherent concept. The score is the mean 1-5 rating of how well the output would work in the context of the prompt and campaign, over the evaluators and prompts of this domain and stage; higher is better.

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

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT Image 1.53.93
2Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)3.6
3Flux 2 Pro3.33
4Seedream 4.53.17

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