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1275 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of June 8, 2026
July 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 changesMay 11, 202665 changesMay 4, 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 14, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,235Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
2GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,267
3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #6 overall1,235
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #17 overall1,190
3ERNIE ImageBaidu · #26 overall1,172
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
claude-fable-5Coding · #1New
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5Image · #3New
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash (Foundry)Image · #8New
MAI-Image-2.5 (Foundry)Image · #12New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,339±9
2—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,267±9
3NewHiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,264±10
4▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,257±9
5▼ 1Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,254±9
6▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,219±9
7NewMAI-Image-2.5-Flash (Foundry)ClosedMicrosoft1,219±11
8▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,209±11
9▼ 2grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,204±10
10▼ 2Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,203±11
11NewMAI-Image-2.5 (Foundry)ClosedMicrosoft1,200±11
12▼ 3Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,197±10
13▼ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,193±9
14▼ 4Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,193±8
15▼ 3MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,192±9
16▼ 3FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,188±9
17▼ 2Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,184±10
18▼ 4Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,183±9
19▼ 3FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,181±9
20▼ 2Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,179±10
21▼ 4grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,179±9
22▼ 3Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,175±10
23▼ 3ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,174±8
24▼ 3Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,171±9
25▼ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,165±8
26▼ 4Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,164±9
27▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,162±8
28▼ 4MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft1,160±8
29▼ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,151±8
30▼ 3ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,150±8
31▼ 2Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,147±10
32▼ 4Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,147±9
33▼ 2Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,146±10
34▼ 4grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,145±9
35▼ 2Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,143±10
36▼ 4Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,138±9
37▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,138±9
38▼ 4Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,136±9
39▼ 3GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,134±9
40▼ 2Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,134±9
41▼ 4Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,133±9
42▼ 3Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,130±9
43▼ 3FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,123±8
44▼ 3Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,120±8
45▼ 3image-1ClosedApi Airforce1,120±8
46▼ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,117±9
47▼ 4Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,117±8
48▼ 2Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,112±8
49▼ 4Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,110±9
50▼ 3Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,110±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 “—”.