Model rankings

896 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of November 9, 2026

November 9, 202636 changes November 2, 202641 changes October 26, 20269 changes October 19, 2026247 changes October 12, 2026127 changes October 5, 202634 changes September 28, 202617 changes September 21, 2026115 changes September 14, 2026174 changes September 7, 2026144 changes August 31, 202620 changes August 24, 202615 changes

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images

GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score

Best open model

Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score

Most voted

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)Google894,571Votes

Top three by Score

1GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429

2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)OpenAI1,406

3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400

Top three open models

1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227

2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199

3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164

This week's changes

Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New

GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)Image · #1New

GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)Image · #3New

Simba 3.5Speech · #5New

Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

SortScore Votes

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval	Votes
1	—	Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram	1,199	±4	77,406
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	1,164	±7	10,160
3	—	Krea 2 TurboOpenKrea	1,116	±4	63,653

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