Head to head: Krea 3 Edit vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2
Krea 3 Edit vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2
By Ryan Merket · Published
Eight image-editing challenges put two models through a varied set of demands: from peak-action scenes and controlled palettes to exact counts, perspective, reflections, and style matching. The comparison turns on how well each handles the requested composition as well as the subject matter.
Krea 3 Edit takes the saved result with aggregate scores of **63.0 to 61.8**, winning five tasks to OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2’s two, with one tie. The score gap is narrow, but the saved editorial strength is **Clear result (not statistical)** for Krea on this task sample—not a claim about broader model capability. Krea’s wins cluster around following the brief’s framing and visual constraints. It prevailed on palette accuracy, perspective and scale, reflections and glass, exact counting, and lighting and time. In the counting task, both models showed exactly seven cups; Krea’s advantage was keeping the requested wide overhead composition rather than drifting to a square frame. Its 16:9 framing also helped distinguish it in several other wins. OpenAI’s two wins were more specific: it made the more forceful peak-action image, with a denser grasshopper swarm and stronger diagonal energy, and it won spatial layout. The art-style task was a tie: the judges split between Krea’s cleaner, more disciplined poster treatment and OpenAI’s vivid geometric scene. These results keep the comparison from being a simple framing sweep for Krea. **Final call: Krea 3 Edit wins this saved task sample, chiefly through steadier adherence to composition and visual constraints; OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2 has the edge in action intensity and one layout challenge.**
Action & Motion
A black-throated magpie-jay exploding upward from a thorn acacia as a cloud of orange-winged grasshoppers bursts around it, captured mid-lunge with wings flared, tail streaming, and debris scattering; dynamic low-poly style with angular facets emphasizing velocity, strong diagonal composition, sunlit dry savanna, frozen peak-action energy, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model B delivers a more explosive peak-action moment, with a dense swarm of orange-winged grasshoppers, dramatic angular facets, and a forceful diagonal composition. Model A better matches the requested 16:9 framing and shows more of the dry savanna, but its action feels less intense and the grasshopper burst is less prominent. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model B delivers a more explosive peak-action scene, with a strongly faceted bird, dense grasshopper b | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model A delivers the correct 16:9 frame, a conv…
Palette Accuracy
A razorback musk deer standing on a lichen-crusted basalt ledge above a glacial tarn, rendered only in the named palette 'Hilda's Fjord Six': midnight teal, storm-slate, fog gray, bone white, rust umber, and muted juniper, with absolutely no other colors anywhere in the image; crisp naturalistic wildlife illustration, fine fur detail, sparse alpine grasses, overcast diffuse light, wide cinematic composition, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A more closely follows the requested wide cinematic composition and clearly places the musk deer on a lichen-crusted ledge above a tarn, using colors that remain consistent with the named palette. Model B has excellent fur and landscape detail, but its square framing departs substantially from the specified 16:9 format. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model B has especially restrained palette fidelity and convincing fur detail, but its square framing mis | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model A delivers the requested 16:9 wide cinema…
Spatial layout
A clean isometric illustration of a bedroom: a bed against the LEFT wall, a round rug centered on the floor, a desk under the WINDOW on the back wall, and a floor lamp in the FRONT-RIGHT corner. Flat-vector style, consistent perspective.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A more closely matches the requested clean flat-vector style while placing the bed, centered rug, desk beneath the back-wall window, and lamp in the specified locations. Model B is polished and well composed, but its more detailed, dimensional rendering departs from the requested flat-vector look. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model A follows the requested clean flat-vector isometric style more closely, with the bed on the left, desk beneath the back-w | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Both place the bed on the left wall, the desk u…
Perspective & scale
A photorealistic one-point-perspective shot down a long empty library aisle, shelves receding to a single vanishing point, books getting consistently smaller with distance and nothing warped or wrongly sized, warm overhead light, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A closely matches the requested 16:9 framing, with a clear centered vanishing point, warm overhead lighting, and books that recede naturally. Model B has striking perspective and detail, but its square format misses the specified aspect ratio. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model A better matches the requested 16:9 framing and presents a convincing, empty aisle with warm overhead lights and clear one-point perspective. Model B has strong symmetry and sc | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model A delivers a clean 16:9 one-point perspec…
Reflections & glass
A photorealistic close-up of a chrome teapot on a polished dark marble counter next to a glass of water; the window and a red apple on the counter must be correctly reflected in BOTH the chrome and the water's surface, dramatic side light, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A matches the requested 16:9 framing and clearly shows the window and apple reflected in the chrome, with dramatic side light. Model B has especially polished reflections and detail, but its square framing misses the specified aspect ratio; neither image clearly shows both required objects reflected on the water’s surface. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model A matches the requested 16:9 framing and clearly includes the chrome teapot, glass of water, wi | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model A delivers the requested 16:9 framing, dr…
Exact counting
A clean overhead flat lay on white marble of EXACTLY seven identical espresso cups arranged in a single straight row, each clearly separate and individually countable, even soft lighting, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A matches the requested 16:9 overhead flat lay and shows exactly seven clearly countable cups in a straight row. Model B also has seven cups and attractive espresso detail, but its square format and lower placement depart more from the requested composition. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Both images show exactly seven distinct cups in a straight row on white marble, but Model A follows the requested 16:9 format while Model B is square. Model B’s espres | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Both Model A and Model B show exactly seven ide…
Art-Style Fidelity
A pair of secretary birds stalking through a dried salt marsh scattered with seed pods and cracked reed stems, depicted in unmistakable Bauhaus poster style: bold geometric simplification, flat planes, asymmetric balance, modular circles and diagonals, limited clean shapes, disciplined typography-free design, sharp edge contrast, pale morning light, elevated viewpoint, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A more closely follows the prompt’s clean, limited-shape Bauhaus design and exact 16:9 format, with an elevated view and two clearly stylized secretary birds. Model B has a vivid marsh scene and strong geometric forms, but its square framing, busy texture, and denser detail depart from the requested disciplined poster style. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model B better combines the unmistakably geometric poster treatment with the requested secretary bi | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model B delivers a far more unmistakable Bauhau…
Lighting & Time
Three fishing cats on a half-submerged mangrove root at blue hour just after sunset, the scene defined by luminous indigo dusk, faint silver reflections on tidal water, and a cool misty atmosphere; realistic wildlife painting with delicate wet fur textures, distant bioluminescent plankton glimmer near the shoreline, low camera angle, tranquil but alert mood, 16:9.
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna: Model A more strongly captures the luminous indigo blue hour, silver water reflections, and glowing shoreline plankton, while also matching the requested wide framing. Model B has more naturalistic fur and a compelling scene, but its warmer, brighter horizon and square composition are less aligned with the prompt. (Second judge pass, order swapped — scores are the average of both: Model B better captures the luminous indigo dusk, silver tidal reflections, wet fur, and tranquil alert mood, with e | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1: Model A delivers the requested 16:9 frame, a lo…
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