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

Human Creativity Benchmark (Hopkins et al., 2026): professional creatives rate anonymized advertising images at the Refinement stage, where a near-final design needs targeted edits. 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 Refinement stage, rated by professional creatives. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT Image 1.54.13
2Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)4.03
3Seedream 4.54
4Flux 2 Pro3.63

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=human-creativity-benchmark-ad-images-refinement-prompt-adherence · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.