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569 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published October 3, 2025

Best images
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,165Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,165Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,165Score
Most voted
qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba555,353Votes
Top three by Score
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,165
3seedream-4-2kByteDance1,144
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #1 overall1,165
2qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba · #11 overall1,078
3qwen-imageAlibaba · #13 overall1,062
This week's changes
GPT-5 Codex (high)Intelligence · #2New
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)Intelligence · #7New
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)Intelligence · #13New
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 InstructIntelligence · #39New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,151±3517,082
2Newseedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,144±614,589
3▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,142±3437,734
4Newseedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,132±712,559
5▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,127±3438,948
6▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,126±3197,707
7▼ 2seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,118±613,516
8▼ 2seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,081±530,686
9▼ 2flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,080±372,770
10▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,063±3411,823
11▼ 3flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,062±3326,220
12▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±529,252
13▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,029±3270,663
14▼ 2recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,019±4101,153
15—photonClosedLuma AI1,018±449,861
16▼ 3flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,013±371,781
17▼ 3ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,012±373,285
18▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle989±3277,900
19▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI978±4262,050

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 “—”.