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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 29, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,242Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,157Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,181Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,205
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #11 overall1,157
2Qwen Image 2512Alibaba · #15 overall1,139
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #16 overall1,139
This week's changes
grok-imagine-videoVideo · #1New
Inworld TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)Intelligence · #3New
kimi-k2.5-thinkingCoding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,242—
2—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,216—
3▲ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,162—
4▼ 1Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,158—
5—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,157—
6—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,152—
7—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,120—
8—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,110—
9—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,103—
10—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,101—
11—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,089—
12—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,081—
13—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,080—
14—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,077—
15▲ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,066—
16▼ 1Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,063—
17—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,057—
18—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,045—
19—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,044—
20—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,037—
21—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,030—
22—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,023—
23—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,021—
24—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,017—
25—Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015—
26—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,013—
27—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,009—
28—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,006—
29—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe998—
30—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram997—
31—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai979—
32—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle979—
33—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway978—
34—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle961—
35—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI948—
36—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe936—
37—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI930—
38—Grok 2ClosedxAI930—
39—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon904—
40—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon882—
41—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI697—

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 “—”.