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896 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Top three by Score
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,227±617,883
2—HunyuanImage 3.0OpenTencent1,152±3175,293
3—Qwen-Image (2512)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants1,124±395,381
4—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,115±475,930
5—Z-Image-TurboOpenAlibaba1,082±524,125
6—GLM-ImageOpenZ.ai1,012±94,761
7—BAGELOpenByteDance897±612,316

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 “—”.