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Week of November 9, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated November 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,259Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,046Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,101Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,259
2GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,228
3GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)OpenAI1,227
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #23 overall1,046
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #30 overall1,028
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #47 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)Image · #3New
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,259±15
2▼ 1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,228±10
3NewGPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,227±12
4▼ 2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,209±10
5▼ 2GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,189±11
6▼ 2Nano Banana 2.1Google1,176±12
7▼ 1MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,168±12
8▼ 3Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedSpaceXAI1,167±12
9▼ 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Google1,142±10
10▼ 2Muse ImageClosedMeta1,128±11
11▼ 2GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,124±11
12▼ 2MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMicrosoft AI1,123±12
13▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,119±11
13—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google1,119±10
15▼ 4FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs1,116±12
15▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-ProMicrosoft AI1,116±10
17▼ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Google1,110±10
18▼ 2Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,101±11
19▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,094±12
20▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0Alibaba1,074±12
21▼ 2Qwen-Image-2.1-ProAlibaba1,058±12
22▼ 2grok-imagine-image-qualitySpaceXAI1,049±9
23▼ 2Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,046±12
24▼ 2FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs1,042±12
25▼ 2Fibo 2.0Bria1,040±12
26▼ 2Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,035±9
27▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashMicrosoft AI1,033±11
28▼ 3Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,031±11
29▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,029±11
30—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,028±11
30▲ 2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,028±10
30▲ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityRecraft1,028±11
33▼ 4Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,027±12
34▼ 1Luma UNI 1 MaxLuma Labs1,026±12
34▼ 7Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboAlibaba1,026±12
36▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,024±11
37▼ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,021±10
37▼ 1Krea 2 Medium TurboKrea1,021±11
39▼ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,020±12
40▼ 2Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,019±9
40▲ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageAlibaba1,019±12
42▼ 3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,018±11
43▼ 1GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,015±12
44▼ 4Ideogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,014±14
45▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,013±9
46▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,003±10
47▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
47▼ 1Ming-Image-0.1-DesignInclusionAI1,000±9
49▼ 2P-Image-Ideogram (High)Pruna AI · 4 more variants998±13
50▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant995±9

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.