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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published February 20, 2026

Best images
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #8 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #9 overall1,151
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #13 overall1,140
This week's changes
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewIntelligence · #1New
Kling 3.0 ProVideo · #1New
claude-sonnet-4-6Coding · #2New
Veo 3.1Video · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,247±546,513
2—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,237±545,431
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,233±583,649
4—flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,169±451,913
5—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,158±471,167
6▲ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±482,860
7▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,156±3662,751
8—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,149±4390,155
9▲ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,145±477,698
10▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,141±612,574
11—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±3446,148
12—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,119±611,757
13—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±4110,712
14▲ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,115±4108,417
15▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3257,162
16—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,101±489,979
17—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,099±517,423
18Newrecraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,099±76,148
19▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,094±478,897
20▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,084±536,624
21▼ 1flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,076±366,188
22▼ 1flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,060±3333,006
23▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,059±3361,591
24▼ 1p-imageClosedPruna1,051±522,681
25▼ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,050±4115,776
26▼ 1photonClosedLuma AI1,037±4127,983
27▼ 1recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,021±3183,243
28▼ 1flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,017±370,353
29▼ 1lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±3287,570
30▼ 1ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,015±372,113
31▼ 1gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle976±3258,659
32▼ 1dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI969±4240,471

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 “—”.