# Gemini 3 Pro Image

15 Hacker News commenters recommended Gemini 3 Pro Image and 11 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Praised for image editing and understanding prompts better than OpenAI's models; critics say strict filters block requests and it often returns images unchanged.

## Why people recommend it

- Preferred over OpenAI for workflows (3 comments): "OpenAI wouldn't make me a Looney Tunes Roadrunner Martin Scorsese "Absolute Cinema" parody, but Gemini didn't blink about the trademark violation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867845)) "Gemini/Nano Banana is notably better at understanding and generating images than OpenAI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226971)) "Google in my opinion is the best for my workflows" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735830))
- Strong output quality overall (4 comments): "for what we believe is technically superior output" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46023609)) "Their image models are kicking ass though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002070)) "stunningly good at just about everything" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214472))
- Handles image editing well (2 comments): "we can see Gemini do what I wanted, so it's clearly not impossible" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301944)) "outside of image editing in Gemini pro 3 image, it is not" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540985))

## What people warn about

- Filters block many requests (2 comments): "Google's models are excellent at making adult content, they just have aggressive pre and post filtering, but it's not perfect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546941)) "Gemini rejects anything involving a well known person. Anything." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853938))
- Returns image unchanged or repeats (2 comments): "After half a dozen it just started kicking out the same image over and over again no matter what the prompt said." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195816)) "Gemini has a problem where it often returns the image unchanged or almost unchanged" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891886))
- Poor instruction following (3 comments): "I simply could not get any Gemini models to produce the right output." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859634)) "Gemini struggles to follow the specification given" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924030)) "this one it just did not seem to understand" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942550))
- Output subtly off or approximate (2 comments): "looks worse but qualifies as a bad approximation of the task" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45895578)) "current gemini output (supposedly) tends to be subtly off" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738409))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Nano Banana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nano-banana-pro.md): 265 recommend
- [gpt-image-1](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-1-5.md): 79 recommend
- [FLUX.2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flux-2.md): 66 recommend
- [gpt-image-2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-2.md): 63 recommend
- [Qwen-Image](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-image-2-1.md): 47 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://gemini.google.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gemini 3 Pro Image", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-3-pro-image/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).