› Two new image models from China arrived within two days: Seedream 5.5 from ByteDance on 9 November, and MiniMax H3-Image on 10 November.
› I tested both with the same set of prompts I had already used on Google's Nano Banana 2.1 and OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.6.
› That gives me a rare setup: four models, identical prompts, one counting method.
› Below is the comparison in six categories, each backed by numbers from my own tests.