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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 29, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,242Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,157Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,181Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,205
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #11 overall1,157
2Qwen Image 2512Alibaba · #15 overall1,139
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #16 overall1,139
This week's changes
claude-opus-4-6Coding · #1New
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #6New
kimi-k2.5-instantCoding · #9New
Qwen3-Coder-NextIntelligence · #53New
Step3 VL 10BIntelligence · #151New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Qwen Image 2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,139—
2—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,124—
3—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,114—
4—SRPOOpenTencent1,073—
5—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,051—
6—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,050—
7—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,043—
8—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,041—
9—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,033—
10—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,017—
11—BagelOpenByteDance909—
12—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance887—
13—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek677—

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 “—”.