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1501 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

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

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall998
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba998±10
2▼ 1HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream979±8
3—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent964±9
4—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent945±9
5—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba942±9
6—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu923±9
7—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu913±9
8▲ 5GLM-ImageOpenZ AI889±7
9—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent886±9
10—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba885±7
11—HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream881±8
12▲ 3Infinity 8BOpenByteDance873±9
13▼ 1HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream873±10
14—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream869±9
15▼ 7SRPOOpenTencent865±8
16—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan861±8
17—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance719±9
18—BagelOpenByteDance703±9
19—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek532±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 “—”.