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1388 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

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

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340Score
Best open model
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,246Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340
2Reve 2.1Reve1,299
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,218
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #21 overall1,190
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #25 overall1,182
This week's changes
claude-opus-5-maxCoding · #1New
Reve 2.1Image · #2New
MiniMax H3Video · #2New
qwen3.8-maxCoding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,190±7
2—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,167±8
3—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,163±8
4—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,158±8
5—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,126±8
6—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,119±8
7—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,116±8
8—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,102±7
9—SRPOOpenTencent1,080±8
10—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,065±8
11—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,063±8
12—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,062±8
13—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,058±8
14—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,049±8
15—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,046±8
16—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,032±8
17—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance907±8
18—BagelOpenByteDance901±9
19—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek712±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 “—”.