Furniture added, architecture untouched, 24 credits at 2K.
Controlled test · October 25, 2026
Which AI models keep a listing photo honest?
For staging, Nano Banana 2 and Seedream 5 Pro kept the room; FLUX Kontext Max redrew the ceiling. For video, FLUX 3 Max, Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 Max kept the room; Kling 3.0 Omni added a stool and Gemini Omni Flash invented a window wall. Every model got the same photo and the same prompt, once. A listing has to show the home as it is, so the test is simple: did anything that is not furniture change?
The short answer
Stage with Nano Banana 2. Animate with FLUX 3 Max.
Kept the room at 1080p for 87 credits per 6 seconds.
The steadiest move, at 3.7 times the price and 720p.
1,043 credits ($10.43) for the whole test: 69 for four staged images, 846 for five videos, 128 for the one-take tour; the empty room cost 24 to generate.
Part 1 · Staging
Every image model got this empty room.
Nano Banana 2 generated the empty living room as a stand-in for a real listing photo: concrete fireplace wall, exposed beams, a glass wall over a canyon. Each staging model received it as the source image with the same prompt.
Read the staging prompt
Virtually stage this empty living room for a real estate listing. Add only movable furniture and decor: a long low cream bouclé sofa facing the fireplace, a round walnut coffee table, a large textured ivory wool rug, two cognac leather lounge chairs angled toward the window wall, a tall olive tree in a matte ceramic pot in the corner, a slim brass floor lamp, a few art books and a stoneware vase on the table. Keep every architectural element exactly as it is: the board-formed concrete wall and fireplace, ceiling beams, ceiling height, window wall and its frames, the floor, the canyon view, the light direction, the camera position and lens. Do not change, move, add or remove any wall, window, door, beam or fixture. Photorealistic, same exposure and color as the original photo.
Unedited outputs
Four staging results.
Kept the room
Nano Banana 2
Added exactly the furniture asked for and left the walls, beams, fireplace, window wall and view as photographed. Our default for staging.
Kept the room
Seedream 5 Pro
Kept the architecture and the view; chose its own furniture shapes (a curved sofa, a tall arc lamp). A good second option.
Kept the room
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Kept the walls and windows but added things nobody asked for: framed art on the back wall, a throw, and flames in the fireplace. Smaller output.
Changed the room
FLUX Kontext Max
Moved the camera, redrew the ceiling with different beams and added a console table. The room no longer matches the listing.
Part 2 · Video
Five video models, one staged photo, one camera move.
The Nano Banana 2 staged photo as the literal first frame, the same camera-only prompt, 6 seconds, 16:9.
1080p where the model offers it at a sane price; Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Omni ran at 720p.
We watched every clip frame by frame for anything that is not furniture changing: walls, windows, beams, the view, new objects.
Read the video prompt
Real estate listing video shot. Camera-only motion: a slow, perfectly smooth gimbal dolly forward into the living room toward the glass window wall, with gentle parallax between the sofa, the lounge chairs and the canyon view. The room, furniture, walls, fireplace, beams, window frames and view stay exactly as in the frame; nothing appears, disappears or changes shape. Warm late-afternoon sunlight, leaves outside sway slightly. Audio: quiet room tone only, no music, no voices.
Unedited outputs
Watch the five results.
01
Best value: kept the room
FLUX 3 Max
- Cost
- 87 credits · $0.87
- Output
- 6 s · 1920×1088
- Kept the room
- Yes
What worked
A gentle push with real parallax that held the walls, furniture and view, at 1080p for the lowest price in the test. We used it for the living room in the listing reel.
Limitation
Delivered 1920×1088, so it needs an 8-pixel crop for exact 1080p. The move is subtle.
video/flux-3-max · fal FLUX 3 Max API
02
Most faithful, most expensive
Seedance 2.5
- Cost
- 321 credits · $3.21
- Output
- 6 s · 1284×716 (720p)
- Kept the room
- Yes
What worked
The steadiest, most even push of the test; every object stayed in place to the last frame.
Limitation
Ran at 720p and cost 3.7 times FLUX 3 Max; a 1080p take costs more again.
video/seedance-2.5 · ByteDance Seedance 2.5 announcement
03
Kept the room
MiniMax H3 Max
- Cost
- 192 credits · $1.92
- Output
- 6.6 s · 1928×1076
- Kept the room
- Yes
What worked
Held the architecture and furniture through a slightly wider move toward the window wall.
Limitation
Returned 6.6 seconds at 1928×1076 instead of 6 s at 1920×1080, and cost 2.2 times FLUX 3 Max.
video/minimax-h3-max · MiniMax H3 model card
04
Drifted into a pan
Kling 3.0 Omni
- Cost
- 108 credits · $1.08
- Output
- 6 s · 1284×716 (720p)
- Kept the room
- No
What worked
Smooth motion and good light through the first half.
Limitation
Turned the push into a pan toward the back wall and added a small stool that is not in the photo.
video/kling-3.0-omni · Kling user guide
05
Invented a window wall
Gemini Omni Flash
- Cost
- 138 credits · $1.38
- Output
- 6 s · 1920×1080
- Kept the room
- No
What worked
A confident, cinematic push with natural light and room tone. On the exterior, kitchen, bedroom and terrace shots of the same listing it kept the rooms.
Limitation
In this room it pushed far past the frame and replaced the white back wall with a second glass wall within 1.5 seconds: a change a buyer would notice.
video/gemini-omni-flash · Google video generation documentation
Bonus · one take through four rooms
Can one generation tour the whole house?
FLUX 3 Max accepts up to 10 timed keyframes. We gave it the staged living room, kitchen, bedroom and terrace at 0, 5, 10 and 15 seconds: 128 credits at 720p. It cut from room to room instead of inventing hallways, kept each room as photographed, and reached the terrace through the glass door. For a listing reel, separate 1080p clips cut to music are sharper.
Measured comparison
Cost and result, side by side.
| Model | Job | Output | Credits | Kept the room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano Banana 2 | Staging | 2752×1536 (2K) | 24 | Yes |
| Seedream 5 Pro | Staging | 2752×1536 (2K) | 18 | Yes |
| GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | Staging | 1678×937 | 11 | Yes |
| FLUX Kontext Max | Staging | 1392×752 | 16 | No |
| FLUX 3 Max | 6 s video | 6 s · 1920×1088 | 87 | Yes |
| Seedance 2.5 | 6 s video | 6 s · 1284×716 (720p) | 321 | Yes |
| MiniMax H3 Max | 6 s video | 6.6 s · 1928×1076 | 192 | Yes |
| Kling 3.0 Omni | 6 s video | 6 s · 1284×716 (720p) | 108 | No |
| Gemini Omni Flash | 6 s video | 6 s · 1920×1080 | 138 | No |
Creative Claw sells 1,000 credits for $10. These are the credits charged in this run, not guarantees for future model versions or settings.
What this test does not prove
One room is evidence, not a ranking for every listing.
- Each model ran once on one room. A different room or a second attempt can go either way: Gemini Omni Flash kept four other rooms of the same listing.
- The listing is fictional; the empty room was generated, not photographed.
- Output sizes differ by model. Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 Omni ran at 720p.
- Whatever the model, compare every staged photo and clip with the original before it goes in a listing, and label it. See the virtual staging guide for the rules.
