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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

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

Best images
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,046Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,101Score
Top three by Score
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
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
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▼ 1MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,168±12
7—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,128±11
8—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,124±11
9▲ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,119±11
10▲ 4Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,035±9
11▲ 7GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,015±12
12▲ 5Ideogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,014±14
13▲ 6Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,013±9
14▲ 7GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI937±16
15▲ 7Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram911±17

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 “—”.