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1035 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published March 6, 2026

Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #12 overall1,152
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #13 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #17 overall1,139
This week's changes
GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
Qwen3.5 27B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #19New
Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #22New
qwen3.5-122b-a10bCoding · #22New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,268±714,729
2—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,248±555,118
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,236±552,541
4—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,233±583,574
5—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,177±68,013
6Newgrok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,175±439,932
7▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,167±459,623
8Newgrok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,162±439,822
9▼ 2flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,160±478,354
10▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,156±3680,525
11▼ 3flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,155±491,155
12▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4390,079
13▼ 2seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,144±490,716
14▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,141±612,565
15▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,135±528,865
16▼ 3imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±3455,020
17▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±4125,008
18▼ 3seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,118±611,747
19▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,597
20▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,114±4114,160
21▼ 2seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,111±613,668
22▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,104±498,590
23▼ 2recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,100±711,623
24▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,095±486,735
25▼ 2seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,084±536,605
26▼ 2flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,076±366,188
27▼ 2flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,060±3332,959
28▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,059±3361,554
29▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,050±4115,713
30▼ 2p-imageClosedPruna1,041±532,048
31▼ 2photonClosedLuma AI1,037±4127,889
32▼ 2recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,021±3188,164
33▼ 2flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,016±370,353
34▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±3287,488
35▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,014±372,113
36▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle976±3258,626
37▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI969±4240,451

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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