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Week of November 9, 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
Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated November 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,259Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,046Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,101Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,259
2GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,228
3GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)OpenAI1,227
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #23 overall1,046
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #30 overall1,028
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #47 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)Image · #3New
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,259±15
2▼ 1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,228±10
3NewGPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,227±12
4▼ 2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,209±10
5▼ 2GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,189±11
6—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,168±12
7▼ 2Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedSpaceXAI1,167±12
8—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,128±11
9—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,124±11
10▲ 2MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,119±11
11▲ 5Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,101±11
12▲ 5Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,094±12
13▲ 8Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,035±9
14▲ 8Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,031±11
15▲ 10Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,029±11
16▲ 11FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,028±11
17▲ 9Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,027±12
18▲ 12grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,024±11
19▲ 12FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,021±10
20▲ 13Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,020±12
21▲ 13Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,019±9
22▲ 16GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,015±12
23▲ 13Ideogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,014±14
24▲ 15Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,013±9
25▲ 15FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,003±10
26▲ 20Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba988±12
27▲ 26Recraft V4.1 FlashClosedRecraft951±12
28▲ 26GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI937±16
29▲ 27FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs931±12
30▲ 28FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs924±17
31▲ 28Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram911±17
32▲ 29P-ImageClosedPruna AI896±17
33▲ 32FLUX1.1 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs871±18
34▲ 34Luma PhotonClosedLuma Labs844±18

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 “—”.