Welcome to the 11th in a series of posts where I will test AI image generators and see how they handle making maze art. I will be asking 10 prompts and seeing what gets generated. My goal is to evaluate different AI image sites against each other to see how they perform. If you need to catch-up here is the series so far:
An exploration into Al Image Maze Generation
Making mazes with AI: DallE2 (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: Stable Diffusion (Updated to compare 2023 and 2024 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: Craiyon (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: Dream by Wombo (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: Nightcafe (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: StarryAI (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: DeepAI (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: Canva (Updated to compare 2023 and 2024 to 2026)
Making mazes with AI: AI Image Generator (Updated to compare 2023 to 2026)
Making Maze Art with ToolBaz
2023: Today I test out ToolBaz. You can access the ToolBaz website here. You can just go to the website and start using it, there is no sign-in or anything. Each prompt, or generation will generate 1 image. You may also choose between 3 size outputs (Small, Medium, Large). When you generate an image you see similar ones below it - check them out as you work ! All prompts I use are the same for each site !
Feb 2026: I have tested Toolbaz text to image generator for 15 straight days and each day the image generator has been down with maintenance or has an internal error. The size outputs are now 4 sizes of square shaped, 3 landscape sizes and 3 portrait sizes. There are 3 AI Models to choose from, and I always use the default. I want to mention that the AI writing content tools as massively expanded from what I remember.
March 2026: Toolbaz now requires you to sign-in and use credits to access the text to image generator. There are now 2 models to choose from with Z-Image Turbo (1 credit) available to in 4 sizes and Seedream 4.5 (5 credits) available in 7 output sizes. I signed in and got a 30 day trial with 30k tokens and 15 credits to make images. I did this and created images, but was unable to get the download button to work. I used a workaround to get the images for this post.
Prompt 1 - Make a medium difficulty maze of the Eiffel Tower in black and white with arrows at the start and finish
2023: 2 half Eiffel Towers. I see an arrow ! and maybe a lamp that looks like an arrow ! I also see lots of things that do not belong.
2026: Massive improvement. We get the entire Eiffel Tower, surrounded by a maze like structure.
Prompt 2 - Draw a medium difficulty large maze of the Empire State Building with the start and goal embedded in the structure
2023: A U shaped building with a red trashcan out front ?
2026: We got an Empire State Building and a maze around it ! Much better !
Prompt 3 - Draw a difficult maze of the White House pixel art style
2023: Maybe that is a white house in the middle with a brown door. And the maze is technically a maze I think - I can move from a border opening to another border opening.
2026: It missed The White House. No maze opening. Still poor.
Prompt 4 - Draw a difficult maze that looks like a drawing of a famous building in sketch style
2023: I see a door ! There were like a dozen related images that others made with different prompts that I really liked. Maybe the problem is me ?
2026: At least this time I see a building.
Prompt 5 - Draw a maze in the style of doyoumaze.com of a skyscraper in NYC
2023: I think the caption captures the essence of this better than anything I could ever write: “Maztet Lojze !” Fun fact: Lojze is a Slovenian name.
2026: Much better, Weak, but much better.
Prompt 6 - Draw a maze in the style of Sean C Jackson of a scene from a large outdoor market
2023: It has potential. The coloration, a maze intermixed with (not quite) a scene.
2026: Wrong style but it did a nice job with the market and the maze !
Prompt 7 - Make a maze of a slice of an orange in color
2023: Better than most. Not good, but better than most.
2026: I see it ! A slice of an orange with a maze in it ! The best one so far I think.
Prompt 8 - Make a maze integrated on top of a photograph of a king sitting on his throne looking cantankerous beside his beautiful queen
2023: This is close to the directions even if it looks blah. The widows peak on the king is……….special. So is the queen sitting on the ground in front of him.
2026: We lost the queen but got a better maze and an interesting king.
Prompt 9 - Make a solvable maze that is very large and very difficult to solve because it is so complex
2023: Not so good.
2026: Ehh. Nice try, but no.
Prompt 10 - Make a 3d render of a red and blue glossy cube maze
2023: Interesting. I like it.
2026: Better. Very nice generation.
2023: How did ToolBaz do ? Well, I have to say I found many images that I liked that were made from related but different prompts. That was not what this project was about, but those options were excellent. It is as if the AI was saying I can’t make your prompt into something cool but here are examples of great generations and the prompts that made them. So if you are not looking for something specific this seems excellent.
Feb 2026: I cannot recommend something that I have not seen work since I started to test it daily.
March 2026: Better, but still has some bugs to work out. I would not use this image generator but I will be trying the other writing tools since I had to sign up for a month to so this project !
Coming Next: Photosonic
