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1412 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of August 10, 2026
September 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,214Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance1,279Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370
2Reve 2.1Reve1,324
3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,321
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #32 overall1,200
2Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #33 overall1,199
3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #34 overall1,199
This week's changes
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
Qwen3.8 MaxIntelligence · #5New
grok-4.6-highCoding · #5New
Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #7New
gemini-3.7-flash-highCoding · #8New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,370±11
2—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,324±10
3▲ 3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,321±9
4▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,314±10
5—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,311±10
6▲ 5Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,300±10
7▼ 3Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,289±10
8▲ 1Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,279±9
9▼ 2Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,275±9
10—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,257±11
11▲ 3grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,233±8
12—MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,229±11
13▼ 5HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,229±9
14▲ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,229±10
15▲ 11Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,228±11
16▲ 5Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,227±11
17—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,225±12
18▲ 6FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,224±11
19—Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,223±8
20▲ 5Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,222±11
21▲ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,221±11
22▼ 7Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,217±8
23▼ 10Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,217±10
24▲ 8Ideogram 4.0ClosedIdeogram1,215±10
25▼ 3FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,211±10
26▲ 14Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,210±11
27▼ 9Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,210±8
28▲ 15Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,209±11
29▼ 9MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,209±8
30▼ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,207±11
31▲ 10GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,206±11
32▲ 3Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,198±11
33▲ 17Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,196±11
34▲ 5Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,191±11
35▼ 8Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,190±8
36▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,189±11
37▼ 4Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,188±11
38▲ 4Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,182±11
39▼ 8Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,182±11
40▼ 10MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,182±8
41▲ 8Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,181±11
42▲ 10Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,174±11
43▼ 14ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,171±11
44▼ 8ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,168±7
45▼ 7Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,161±8
46▼ 2Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,153±9
47▼ 10Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,151±9
48▼ 3Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,143±9
49▼ 2FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,143±11
50▼ 4image-1ClosedApi Airforce1,143±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

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 “—”.