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1371 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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
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
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,186±8
2—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,163±9
3—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,161±9
4—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,155±8
5—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,120±8
6—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,114±8
7—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,110±9
8—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,100±7
9—SRPOOpenTencent1,074±8
10—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,064±8
11—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,062±8
12—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,057±8
13—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,057±8
14—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,045±8
15—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,044±8
16—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,028±9
17—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance903±8
18—BagelOpenByteDance896±10
19—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek709±12

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 “—”.