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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated December 9, 2025

Best images
Best open model
Z-Image TurboAlibaba1,160Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,192Score
Top three by Score
2FLUX.2 [pro]Black Forest Labs1,193
3Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,192
Top three open models
1Z-Image TurboAlibaba · #9 overall1,160
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #13 overall1,147
3HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)Tencent · #23 overall1,110
This week's changes
gpt-5.2Coding · #5New
GPT-5.1 Codex (high)Intelligence · #7New
DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #8New
Z-Image TurboImage · #9New
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview (medium)Intelligence · #16New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,223—
2—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,193—
3—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,192—
4—Riverflow 2 PreviewClosedSourceful1,191—
5—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,188—
6—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,168—
7—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,167—
8—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,164—
9—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,157—
10—ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,155—
11—GPT-5ClosedOpenAI1,147—
12—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,144—
13—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,135—
14—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,132—
15—Kolors 2.1ClosedKuaishou KlingAI1,128—
16—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,126—
17—FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,122—
18—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,116—
19—Recraft V3ClosedRecraft1,112—
20—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,112—
21—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,109—
22—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,105—
23—FLUX1.1 [pro] UltraClosedBlack Forest Labs1,101—
24—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,097—
25—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,094—
26NewP-ImageClosedPruna AI1,094—
27▼ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,090—
28▼ 1Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,087—
29▼ 1FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,086—
30▼ 1Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,084—
31▼ 1FLUX1.1 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,084—
32▼ 1FLUX.1 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,068—
33▼ 1GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,064—
34▼ 1Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,054—
35▼ 1Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,050—
36▼ 1Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,048—
37▼ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,046—
38▼ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,043—
39▼ 1Luma PhotonClosedLuma Labs1,041—
40▼ 1Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,038—
41▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,028—
42▼ 1Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,027—
43▼ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,023—
44▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,020—
45▼ 1Stable Diffusion 3 LargeClosedStability.ai1,017—
46▼ 1MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,011—
47▼ 1Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,010—
48▼ 1Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,003—
49▼ 1Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,001—
50▼ 1Playground v3 (beta)ClosedPlayground AI998—

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 “—”.