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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated October 12, 2026

Best images
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,036Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,087Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,172
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,036
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #39 overall1,012
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #43 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)Coding · #1New
Eleven v4 TurboSpeech · #1New
GPT-6 Astra (Max)Coding · #2New
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)Coding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,087±9
2—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,082±8
3—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,075±9
4—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,032±8
5—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,031±9
6—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,025±9
7—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,023±9
8—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,020±8
9—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,017±9
10—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,012±9
11—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba989±9
12—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent Cloud)ClosedTencent984±11
13—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba983±9
14—HunyuanImage 3.5 (Preview)ClosedTencent976±9
15—Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba964±8
16—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba962±9
17—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed960±9
18—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream945±9
19—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI944±9
20—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba938±7
21—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream924±9
22—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu921±7
23—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI917±7
24—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance913±7
25—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba879±7
26—Image-01ClosedMiniMax862±9
27—Step Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun798±11

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

Arena data comes from the leaderboard dataset it publishes on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Only each board's overall leaderboard is used; scores and ranks are unchanged. dataset · CC BY 4.0

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 “—”.