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1283 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of June 22, 2026
August 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changesJune 22, 202612 changesJune 15, 2026184 changesJune 8, 202624 changesJune 1, 202622 changesMay 25, 202617 changesMay 18, 202616 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated June 28, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,225Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,263Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338
2MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,273
3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,263
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #7 overall1,225
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #19 overall1,186
3Ideogram 4.0 QualityIdeogram · #27 overall1,169
This week's changes
MAI-Image-2.5Image · #2New
MAI-Image-2.5-FlashImage · #9New
Luna TTSSpeech · #9New
Nex-N2-ProIntelligence · #20New
Grok Build 0.1 0616Intelligence · #29New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,338±9
2NewMAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,273±11
3—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,263±10
4▼ 2GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,262±9
5▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,254±9
6▼ 1Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,252±9
7▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,218±9
8NewMAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,213±10
9▼ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,206±10
10▼ 3Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,204±10
11▼ 2grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,201±9
12▼ 2Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,196±10
13▼ 1FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,192±9
14▼ 3Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,192±8
15▼ 2MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,189±8
16▼ 2Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,189±9
17▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,188±9
18▼ 2Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,183±8
19▼ 2FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,181±9
20▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,178±8
21—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,175±10
22▼ 3Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,174±10
23▼ 3ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,174±8
24▼ 2Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,172±9
25▼ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,166±8
26▼ 2Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,164±8
27▼ 2MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,159±8
28▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,157±8
29▼ 2Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,156±10
30▼ 2ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,150±8
31▼ 2Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,149±8
32▼ 1Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,148±9
33▼ 1Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,148±10
34▼ 4Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,146±9
35▼ 2grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,144±8
36▼ 2Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,143±8
37—Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,136±8
38▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,135±8
39▼ 4Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,135±8
40▼ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,133±9
41▼ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,132±8
42▼ 2Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,127±8
43▼ 2FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,122±8
44▼ 2image-1ClosedApi Airforce1,119±8
45▼ 2Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,119±8
46▼ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,117±8
47▼ 2Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,116±8
48▼ 2Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,109±8
49▼ 2Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,109±8
50▼ 2Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,108±8

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 “—”.