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1074 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published March 19, 2026

Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #13 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #14 overall1,150
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #18 overall1,136
This week's changes
Kling 3.0 1080p (Pro)Video · #1New
SkyReels V4Video · #2New
minimax-m2.7Coding · #8New
Grok 4.20 Beta 0309 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #10New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,266±715,317
2—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,244±462,556
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,235±558,168
4—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,536
5Newmai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,189±86,221
6▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,177±67,796
7▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,173±448,767
8▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,167±466,012
9▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,160±448,363
10▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,158±4101,631
11—flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±497,488
12▼ 2gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,154±3696,129
13▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,147±4389,949
14▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,145±4102,375
15▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,141±612,612
16▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,135±443,364
17▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,132±3462,062
18—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±611,852
19▼ 2wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,115±4137,656
20▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,566
21▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,114±4116,526
22▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,113±521,132
23▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,103±4105,807
24▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,102±714,061
25▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±493,991
26▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,852
27▼ 1flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,075±366,172
28▼ 1flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3332,425
29▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3361,616
30▼ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,074
31—photonClosedLuma AI1,035±4127,348
32▼ 2p-imageClosedPruna1,034±440,258
33▼ 1recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,020±4189,880
34Newrunway-gen4ClosedRunway1,018±94,400
35▼ 2flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,016±370,460
36▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±3286,522
37▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,013±372,090
38▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle975±3258,541
39▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI968±4240,333

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 “—”.