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1227 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,187Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,196Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #12 overall1,187
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #22 overall1,159
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #23 overall1,159
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,187±9
2—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,159±9
3▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,128±9
4▼ 1HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,128±10
5—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,110±9
6—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,106±9
7—SRPOOpenTencent1,076±9
8—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,070±9
9—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,061±9
10—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,060±9
11—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,058±9
12—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,054±9
13—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,047±9
14—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,037±10
15—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance912±9
16—BagelOpenByteDance905±10
17—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek714±13

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 “—”.