--- title: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini,... description: A hands-on comparison of four frontier AI models (GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash) tasked with reproducing the Mona Lisa and Starry... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/drawing-the-mona-lisa-with-gpt-5-6-claude-gemini-and-grok-admswtuxp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on comparison of four frontier AI models (GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash) tasked with reproducing the Mona Lisa and Starry... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/drawing-the-mona-lisa-with-gpt-5-6-claude-gemini-and-grok-admswtuxp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aDmsWTUXP.png og:image:alt: "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on comparison of four frontier AI models (GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash) tasked with reproducing the Mona Lisa and Starry Night using a colored-pencil tool harness, plus five open-ended drawing prompts. Each model controlled stroke color, width, pressure, smudging, and erasing while viewing its own canvas. GPT-5.6 Sol led on output quality at low cost ($7.74 for 7 drawings). Claude Fable 5 came second on quality but cost ~$160, roughly 20x the others. Grok 4.5 produced mostly unusable results despite heavy tool use. Gemini 3.6 Flash scored highest on SSIM metrics but visually didn't look closest to the target. A key finding: all models overshot their own peak performance, continuing to edit past their best result. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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