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1501 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 8, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,421Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,257Score
Top three by Score
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,399
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #17 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #24 overall1,167
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #30 overall1,151
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2.5-sunburstClosedOpenAI1,421±133,149
2—gpt-image-2.5-flareClosedOpenAI1,399±132,856
3—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,381±478,731
4—mai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,331±711,213
5—grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)ClosedxAI1,315±122,681
6—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,301±87,573
7—muse-imageClosedMeta1,277±626,045
8—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,632
9—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,261±541,957
10—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±462,443
11—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,920
12—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±457,250
13—gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±616,371
14—gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3152,220
15—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3151,702
16—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,737
17—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,005
18—uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,469
19—mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±549,198
20—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,181±533,836
21—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±3236,623
22—recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,516
23—flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,339
24—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,639
25—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3149,288
26—flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,154±3188,083
27—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,748
28—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2845,086
29—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,103
30—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3259,145
31—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
32—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3109,182
33—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3201,108
34—recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,680
35—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3531,811
36—krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,123±540,205
37—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3248,411
38—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
39—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,897
40—recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,114±3114,295
41—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,361
42—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3163,843
43—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,108±539,614
44—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,729
45—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,089
46—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,562
47—seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,920
48—flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,618
49—flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3330,851
50—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,152

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 “—”.