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1510 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 5, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

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

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,425Score
Best open model
qwen-image-2.1Alibaba1,223Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,255Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google890,539Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,425
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,398
3gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,383
Top three open models
1qwen-image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,223
2ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #19 overall1,205
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #26 overall1,165
This week's changes
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #2New
Utopai XVideo · #2New
Dreamina Seedance 2.5Video · #3New
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Intelligence · #5New
MiniMax H3 MaxVideo · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2.5-sunburstClosedOpenAI1,425±717,752
2—gpt-image-2.5-flareClosedOpenAI1,398±716,889
3—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±493,334
4▲ 2grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas)ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,334±123,113
5▼ 1mai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,332±525,091
6Newgemini-nano-banana-2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±95,310
7▼ 2reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±88,249
8▼ 1muse-imageClosedMeta1,274±542,262
9▼ 1reve-2.0ClosedReve1,269±615,773
10▼ 1gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,262±460,515
11▼ 1seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,255±494,181
12▼ 1qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,255±611,440
13▼ 1mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±461,265
14▼ 1gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±617,804
15▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,248±3175,734
16▼ 1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,237±3169,927
17▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,234±586,464
18▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,192±613,096
19▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,189±614,072
20—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,184±446,699
21▼ 2mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,184±551,475
22▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,170±3272,085
23▼ 1recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,617
24▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,162±499,455
25▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±3123,203
26▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3156,923
27▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,155±439,700
28▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3212,359
29▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2890,539
30—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,149±3300,107
31▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,736
32▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,562
33▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3129,950
34▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3233,292
35▼ 1recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,133±102,795
36▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3539,732
37▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,124±458,098
38▼ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±711,841
39▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,116±3279,229
40▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,116±3268,453
41▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,115±3137,017
42▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3182,685
43▼ 1krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,112±456,888
44▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,110±3171,058
45▼ 1wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,104±530,226
46▼ 1wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,101±530,630
47▼ 1recraft-v4.1-flashClosedRecraft1,099±93,516
48▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±498,410
49▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,885
50▼ 1flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,510

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 “—”.