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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
Top three by Score
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,398
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
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Intelligence · #3New
FLUX 3 Max (720p)Video · #4New
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Coding · #6New
Muse Wonder (Max)Intelligence · #7New
Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max)Coding · #7New
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—grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas)ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,334±123,113
5—mai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,332±525,091
6—gemini-nano-banana-2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±95,310
7—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±88,249
8—muse-imageClosedMeta1,274±542,262
9—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,269±615,773
10—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,262±460,515
11—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,255±494,181
12—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,255±611,440
13—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±461,265
14—gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±617,804
15—gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,248±3175,734
16—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,237±3169,927
17—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,234±586,464
18—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,192±613,096
19—uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,189±614,072
20—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,184±446,699
21—mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,184±551,475
22—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,170±3272,085
23—recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,617
24—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,162±499,455
25—flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±3123,203
26—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3156,923
27—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,155±439,700
28—flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3212,359
29—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2890,539
30—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,149±3300,107
31—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,736
32—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,562
33—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3129,950
34—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3233,292
35—recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,133±102,795
36—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3539,732
37—krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,124±458,098
38—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±711,841
39—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,116±3279,229
40—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,116±3268,453
41—recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,115±3137,017
42—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3182,685
43—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,112±456,888
44—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,110±3171,058
45—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,104±530,226
46—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,101±530,630
47—recraft-v4.1-flashClosedRecraft1,099±93,516
48—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±498,410
49—seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,885
50—flux-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

Arena data comes from the leaderboard dataset it publishes on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Only each board's overall leaderboard is used; scores and ranks are unchanged. dataset · CC BY 4.0

Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.