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896 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Top three by Score
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstClosedOpenAI1,429±557,928
2—GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,406±132,718
3—GPT-Image-2.5 FlareClosedOpenAI1,400±557,020
4—GPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±132,551
5—GPT-Image-2 (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±4106,021
6—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,329±538,700
7—Gemini Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±94,966
8—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,319±79,959
9—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,909
10—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,268±615,323
11—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,266±557,330
12—Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search)ClosedGoogle1,256±477,579
13—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,254±710,915
14—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±459,127
15—Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,249±617,149
16—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,249±4107,413
17—Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K)ClosedGoogle1,246±3185,022
18—GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity)ClosedOpenAI1,236±3169,495
19—Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,231±583,834
20—Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22)ClosedAlibaba1,190±612,670
21—UNI-1.1 MaxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,748
22—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±550,455
23—UNI-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±458,725
24—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,169±112,565
25—Grok Imagine ImageClosedxAI1,168±3287,761
26—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,161±4120,498
27—Grok Imagine Image ProClosedxAI1,160±497,014
28—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3153,015
29—Reve v1.5ClosedReve1,154±438,512
30—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3219,196
31—Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,149±2894,571
32—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance1,148±3312,425
33—Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,146±4385,852
34—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,141±3143,894
35—Wan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,138±3248,684
36—Seedream 4.0 (2K)ClosedByteDance · 2 more variants1,138±712,274
37—Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,132±112,745
38—Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,128±474,643
39—Imagen 4 (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,128±3533,366
40—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,117±3284,183
41—Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,116±3152,609
42—GPT-Image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,925
43—Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,114±468,026
44—GPT-Image-1 miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3167,858
45—Wan 2.7 Image ProClosedAlibaba1,103±529,817
46—Wan 2.7 ImageClosedAlibaba1,100±530,252
47—Recraft V4.1 FlashClosedRecraft1,098±103,220
48—MAI-Image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±496,286
49—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance1,081±536,197
50—FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,075±365,276

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