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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 4, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,382Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,258Score
Top three by Score
2mai-image-2.6Microsoft AI1,332
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #15 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #22 overall1,168
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #28 overall1,151
This week's changes
gpt-6-astra-maxCoding · #1New
Wan 3.0Video · #1New
claude-fable-5.1-maxCoding · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6-PreviewImage · #2New
GLM-5.3-FlashIntelligence · #9New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±477,830
2Newmai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,332±710,086
3Newgrok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)ClosedxAI1,315±122,682
4▼ 2reve-2.1ClosedReve1,301±87,576
5▼ 2muse-imageClosedMeta1,279±624,856
6▼ 2reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,636
7▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,261±540,649
8▼ 1seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,258±459,484
9▼ 3qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,923
10▼ 2mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±457,295
11▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±616,389
12▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3150,932
13▼ 2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3150,845
14▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,744
15▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,016
16▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,477
17▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±549,204
18▼ 1uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±533,847
19▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±3234,986
20▼ 1recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,517
21▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,355
22▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,649
23▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3149,317
24▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,154±3186,907
25▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,781
26▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2843,075
27▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,120
28▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3257,160
29▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
30▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3108,001
31▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3199,498
32▼ 1recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,682
33▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3531,853
34▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,123±538,977
35▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3246,875
36▼ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
37▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,914
38▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,114±3112,980
39▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,382
40▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3163,859
41▼ 1krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,108±538,398
42▼ 1wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,733
43▼ 1wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,093
44▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,579
45▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,921
46▼ 1flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,618
47▼ 1flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3330,870
48▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,162
49▼ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,422
50▼ 1photonClosedLuma AI1,035±4127,539

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 “—”.