Model rankings

1203 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of May 4, 2026

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 10, 2026

Best images

Best open model

Best from China

Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,201Score

Top three by Score

Top three open models

1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #18 overall1,164

2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #19 overall1,163

3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #23 overall1,158

This week's changes

SIMBA 3.0Speech · #7New

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval
1	—	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	941	±10

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