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1432 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 18, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,368Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,216Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,284Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,368
2Reve 2.1Reve1,321
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #24 overall1,216
2Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #35 overall1,198
3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #36 overall1,198
This week's changes
Sonic 3.6Speech · #1New
Grok 4.6 (high)Intelligence · #4New
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BIntelligence · #7New
glm-5.3-maxCoding · #8New
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProImage · #8New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 3HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,175±8
2▲ 3Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,172±8
3▲ 3HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,150±10
4▲ 3HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,139±10
5▲ 3Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,130±9
6▲ 4Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,081±8
7▲ 2SRPOOpenTencent1,080±8
8▲ 3HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,077±8
9▼ 8HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,070±8
10▲ 2HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,069±9
11▲ 2GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,067±7
12▲ 2HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,063±8
13▲ 2Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,056±8
14▲ 2LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,052±8
15▲ 3SDXL LightningOpenByteDance911±8
16▲ 1BagelOpenByteDance908±9
17▲ 2Janus ProOpenDeepSeek720±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 “—”.