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Week of July 20, 2026
August 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changesJune 22, 202612 changesJune 15, 2026184 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 20, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,217Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338
2MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,266
3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #10 overall1,217
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #19 overall1,186
3Ideogram 4.0 QualityIdeogram · #28 overall1,168
This week's changes
kimi-k3-maxCoding · #1New
claude-opus-5-highCoding · #2New
Kimi K3Intelligence · #3New
glm-5.2-maxCoding · #5New
gemini-3.6-flashCoding · #13New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,338±8
2▲ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,266±9
3▲ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,264±9
4▲ 1Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,259±10
5▲ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,258±8
6▲ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,254±8
7▲ 1Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,250±8
8▼ 6Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,246±10
9—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,218±8
10▲ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,208±9
11▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,206±9
12—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,201±8
13▲ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,199±9
14▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,196±9
15—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,191±8
16▲ 2Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,189±7
17—Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,187±8
18▲ 1FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,185±8
19▼ 3MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,185±8
20▲ 1Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,178±8
21▼ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,177±8
22—grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,176±8
23▲ 1Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,171±9
24▼ 1Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,170±9
25—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,170±8
26—ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,167±7
27—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,164±7
28—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,160±8
29—MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,156±8
30▲ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,153±8
31▼ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,152±9
32—Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,149±9
33—ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,147±8
34—Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,145±8
35—grok-imagine-image-proClosedSpaceXAI1,143±8
36▲ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,142±8
37▼ 1Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,141±8
38▲ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,133±8
39▼ 1Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,133±8
40—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,132±8
41▲ 1Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,132±8
42▼ 1Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,132±8
43—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,129±8
44—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,125±8
45—image-1ClosedApi Airforce1,122±7
46—FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,121±8
47—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,118±8
48—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,117±8
49—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,117±7
50—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,109±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

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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 “—”.