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

Best images
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,150Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,150Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #9 overall1,150
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #10 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #14 overall1,138
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% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,236±538,002
2—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,228±539,598
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,226±484,376
4—flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,168±444,486
5Newgrok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,165±68,115
6▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±467,137
7▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,154±3736,121
8▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,152±480,833
9—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,143±4481,935
10▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,143±613,613
11▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,139±441,755
12▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,130±3528,906
13▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,119±4100,046
14▼ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,119±613,306
15▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,116±4105,494
16▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3284,263
17▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,101±486,119
18▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,095±474,322
19Newwan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,088±612,421
20▼ 2seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,083±540,087
21▼ 2flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,078±375,985
22▼ 2flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,064±3402,082
23▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,061±3422,834
24▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,053±4121,795
25Newp-imageClosedPruna1,051±78,974
26▼ 3photonClosedLuma AI1,041±3133,833
27▼ 3recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,026±3184,827
28▼ 3lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,022±3347,220
29▼ 3flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,020±372,920
30▼ 3ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,019±374,729
31▼ 3gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle983±3305,208
32▼ 3dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI978±3271,090

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 “—”.