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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 7, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,206Score
Best from China
qwen-image-3.0-proAlibaba1,258Score
Top three by Score
2reve-2.1Reve1,302
3muse-imageMeta1,283
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #14 overall1,206
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #18 overall1,181
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #27 overall1,151
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,380±569,194
2—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,598
3—muse-imageClosedMeta1,283±714,510
4—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,650
5—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,263±527,910
6Newqwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,258±103,735
7▲ 4seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±526,510
8▼ 2mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,256±544,940
9▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,251±616,419
10▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3138,756
11▼ 2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3142,427
12▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,835
13▼ 1grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,228±448,786
14▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,026
15▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,491
16▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,182±549,207
17▼ 1uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,180±526,927
18▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,172±3217,461
19▼ 1recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,519
20▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,464
21▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,711
22▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3149,402
23▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,155±3175,196
24▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,799
25▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±3822,940
26▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4389,010
27▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,146±3234,737
28▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,639
29—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,136±496,040
30▼ 2wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3182,381
31▼ 1recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,682
32▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3532,862
33▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,122±526,584
34—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3230,234
35▼ 2seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,911
36▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,373
37—recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,113±499,721
38▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,579
39▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3164,065
40—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,105±526,191
41▼ 2wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,745
42▼ 1wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,087
43▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,700
44▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±537,009
45▼ 1flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,741
46▼ 1flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3331,629
47▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,739
48▼ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,578
49▼ 1photonClosedLuma AI1,035±4127,700
50▼ 1p-imageClosed1,034±4103,942

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 “—”.