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Week of September 28, 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 · Updated September 28, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,196Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,035Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,196
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,190
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,035
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #36 overall1,010
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #40 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
Eleven v4Speech · #1New
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
claude-sonnet-5.5-xhighCoding · #3New
gpt-6.1-sol-maxCoding · #4New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,196±9
2▼ 1GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,190±9
3—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,171±9
4—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedSpaceXAI1,157±11
5—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,148±10
6—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,123±8
7—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,111±10
8—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,104±9
9—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,102±8
10▲ 1MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,102±9
11▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,101±8
12—MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,100±8
13—Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,093±8
14—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,088±10
15—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,078±8
16—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,074±10
17—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,045±7
18—MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,033±9
19—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,029±9
20—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,028±10
21▲ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,027±9
22▼ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,026±9
23▼ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,025±7
24▲ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,021±9
25▼ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,021±8
26▲ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,021±9
27▼ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,021±8
28—grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,020±9
29—Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,018±9
30—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,017±7
31—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,014±9
32—Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,014±9
33—Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,012±7
34▲ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,011±9
35▼ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,009±9
36▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,008±9
37—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,002±8
38—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle997±10
39—P-Image-Ideogram (High)ClosedPruna AI997±10
40▲ 1Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs991±9
41▲ 1Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft990±9
42▼ 2MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI989±10
43—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba989±9
44▲ 1Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft986±9
45▼ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle985±9
46NewP-Image-Ideogram (Very High)ClosedPruna AI985±11
47▲ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft984±9
48▼ 2Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba983±9
49▼ 2Recraft V4ClosedRecraft982±9
50▼ 1P-Image-Ideogram (Medium)ClosedPruna AI974±10

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 “—”.