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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published June 5, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,385Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #9 overall1,204
2hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #22 overall1,151
3flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #23 overall1,150
This week's changes
Fun-Realtime-TTSSpeech · #1New
claude-opus-4-8-thinkingCoding · #2New
minimax-m3Coding · #6New
Krea 2 MediumImage · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,385±645,100
2Newreve-2.0ClosedReve1,273±94,759
3▼ 1gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,269±475,713
4▼ 1mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±612,100
5▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,245±4114,130
6▼ 1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,241±4118,438
7—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,234±623,800
8▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,570
9▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,191±711,932
10▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±548,795
11▼ 1uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,175±613,504
12▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,174±3175,360
13▼ 1recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,508
14▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22ClosedAlibaba1,169±85,143
15▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,163±4115,675
16▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,148
17▲ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3147,443
18▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3151,362
19▼ 3reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,153±618,677
20▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,152±3784,087
21▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4387,964
22▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,145±3195,445
23▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,604
24▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,133±3151,088
25▲ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,131±472,240
26▼ 2recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,673
27▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3519,398
28Newkrea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,121±112,587
29▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3199,636
30▼ 3seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±711,850
31▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,719
32▼ 3qwen-image-2.0-2026-03-03ClosedAlibaba1,115±457,997
33▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,112±3173,529
34▼ 2recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,111±473,821
35▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3162,009
36▼ 2wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,102±528,507
37Newkrea-2-largeClosedKrea1,101±112,600
38▼ 3wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,099±528,863
39▼ 3mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,400
40▼ 3seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,843
41▼ 3flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,616
42▼ 3flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3330,717
43▼ 3imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,161
44▼ 3ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,151
45▼ 3photonClosedLuma AI1,036±4127,412
46▼ 3p-imageClosed1,033±4102,083
47▼ 3runway-gen4ClosedRunway1,025±550,348
48▼ 3recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,021±4191,863
49▼ 3flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,016±370,460
50▼ 3lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,014±3285,477

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 “—”.