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Week of December 15, 2025
January 26, 2026177 changesJanuary 19, 202610 changesJanuary 12, 2026116 changesJanuary 5, 20263 changesDecember 29, 202513 changesDecember 22, 20256 changesDecember 15, 20258 changesDecember 8, 202520 changesDecember 1, 202522 changesNovember 24, 202546 changesNovember 17, 202514 changesNovember 10, 202510 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published December 16, 2025

Best images
gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityOpenAI1,264Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Most voted
qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba654,129Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityOpenAI1,264
2gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)Google1,235
3gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)Google1,235
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #8 overall1,152
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #9 overall1,149
3qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba · #22 overall1,066
This week's changes
GPT-5.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
gemini-3-flashCoding · #4New
deepseek-v3.2-thinkingCoding · #12New
Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerIntelligence · #31New
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #50New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newgpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,264±78,871
2▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,235±713,764
3▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,235±543,546
4Newflux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,168±85,388
5▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±523,330
6▼ 3gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,155±3649,795
7▼ 2flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±427,684
8▼ 2seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±620,022
9▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,144±614,515
10▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,144±4493,974
11▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±4494,180
12▼ 2wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,121±540,044
13▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,119±471,743
14▼ 2seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,118±613,456
15▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,117±3251,595
16▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,103±552,802
17▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,091±546,307
18▼ 2seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,084±541,726
19▼ 2flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,078±372,522
20▼ 2flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,064±3378,888
21▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,062±3424,083
22▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,053±488,819
23▼ 2photonClosedLuma AI1,034±4103,112
24▼ 2recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,024±4154,150
25▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,023±3323,598
26▼ 2flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,018±371,781
27▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,017±373,285
28▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle986±3305,274
29▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI978±4267,433

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 “—”.