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1510 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 5, 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 October 5, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,197Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,036Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,090Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,197
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,191
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,172
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,036
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #37 overall1,011
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #41 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #2New
Utopai XVideo · #2New
Dreamina Seedance 2.5Video · #3New
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Intelligence · #5New
MiniMax H3 MaxVideo · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,197±9
2—GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,191±9
3—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,172±9
4—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedSpaceXAI1,155±11
5—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,151±10
6—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,125±8
7—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,115±9
8—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,107±8
9▲ 1MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,106±9
10▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,104±8
11—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,102±8
12—MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,100±7
13—Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,096±8
14—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,090±10
15—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,081±8
16—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,076±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)ClosedAlibaba1,031±9
20—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,029±9
21▲ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,028±9
22▲ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,026±7
23▼ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,026±9
24▲ 2Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,023±8
25▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,023±9
26▲ 3Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,022±9
27—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,020±8
28▼ 3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,020±8
29▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,019±9
30—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,018±7
31—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,016±9
32—Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,014±9
33NewIdeogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,013±11
34▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,012±7
35—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,012±9
36▼ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,010±9
37▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,009±9
38▼ 1FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,004±8
39▼ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle998±10
40▼ 1P-Image-Ideogram (High)ClosedPruna AI997±10
41▼ 1Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs992±9
42▼ 1Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft990±9
43—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba990±9
44▼ 2MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI990±10
45▼ 1Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft987±9
46▲ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft985±9
47▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle985±9
48NewHunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent Cloud)ClosedTencent985±11
49▼ 3P-Image-Ideogram (Very High)ClosedPruna AI984±11
50▼ 1Recraft V4ClosedRecraft983±9

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 “—”.