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Week of November 2, 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 November 8, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,428Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Most voted
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)Google894,573Votes
Top three by Score
1GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,428
2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)OpenAI1,406
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)Intelligence · #1New
GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)Intelligence · #6New
Fish Audio Drama 3Speech · #6New
P-Video-2-ProVideo · #11New
AssemblyAI-TTS-1Speech · #14New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstClosedOpenAI1,428±558,604
2NewGPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,406±132,720
3▼ 1GPT-Image-2.5 FlareClosedOpenAI1,400±557,645
4NewGPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±132,552
5▼ 2GPT-Image-2 (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±4106,289
6▼ 2MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,330±538,967
7▼ 2Gemini Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±94,966
8▼ 2Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,319±79,961
9▼ 2Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,909
10▼ 1Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,268±615,323
11▼ 3Muse ImageClosedMeta1,266±557,616
12▼ 2Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search)ClosedGoogle1,257±477,983
13▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,254±710,915
14▼ 2MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±459,125
15▼ 1Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,249±617,148
16▼ 3Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,249±4107,755
17▼ 2Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K)ClosedGoogle1,246±3185,024
18▼ 2GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity)ClosedOpenAI1,236±3169,494
19▼ 2Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,231±583,833
20▼ 2Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22)ClosedAlibaba1,190±612,670
21▼ 2UNI-1.1 MaxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,748
22▼ 2MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±550,455
23▼ 2UNI-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±459,014
24▼ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,169±112,565
25▼ 3Grok Imagine ImageClosedxAI1,168±3288,223
26▼ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,161±4120,496
27▼ 2Grok Imagine Image ProClosedxAI1,160±497,013
28▼ 2FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3153,014
29▼ 2Reve v1.5ClosedReve1,154±438,511
30▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3219,188
31▼ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,148±2894,573
32▼ 3Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance1,148±3312,421
33▼ 2Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,146±4385,852
34▼ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,141±3144,261
35▼ 1Wan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,138±3249,043
36▼ 3Seedream 4.0 (2K)ClosedByteDance · 2 more variants1,138±712,274
37▼ 2Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,132±112,745
38▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,128±475,002
39▼ 3Imagen 4 (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,128±3533,363
40▼ 2Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,117±3284,176
41—Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,116±3152,995
42▼ 2GPT-Image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,924
43▼ 4Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,114±468,031
44▼ 2GPT-Image-1 miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3167,856
45▼ 2Wan 2.7 Image ProClosedAlibaba1,103±529,814
46▼ 2Wan 2.7 ImageClosedAlibaba1,100±530,252
47▼ 2Recraft V4.1 FlashClosedRecraft1,098±103,220
48▼ 2MAI-Image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±496,286
49▼ 2Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance1,081±536,197
50▼ 2FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,075±365,276

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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