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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 23, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,245Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,158Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,185Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,206
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #13 overall1,158
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #15 overall1,143
3Qwen Image 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,143
This week's changes
gpt-5.2-codexCoding · #17New
FLUX.2 [klein] 9BImage · #21New
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BImage · #43New
FLUX.2 [klein] 4BImage · #48New
GLM-ImageImage · #49New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,245—
2—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,217—
3—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,165—
4▲ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,165—
5▼ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,160—
6—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,155—
7—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,122—
8—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,110—
9—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,105—
10—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,102—
11—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,093—
12▲ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,084—
13▼ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,082—
14—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,080—
15—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,064—
16—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,064—
17—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,063—
18—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,046—
19—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,044—
20—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,038—
21—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,031—
22▲ 1MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,026—
23▼ 1Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,026—
24—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,018—
25▲ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,016—
26▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,015—
27—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,008—
28—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,008—
29—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe999—
30—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram999—
31▲ 2Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai980—
32▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle980—
33▼ 1Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway978—
34—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle961—
35—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI948—
36—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe936—
37—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI930—
38—Grok 2ClosedxAI929—
39—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon904—
40—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon882—
41—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI698—

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 “—”.