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1227 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of May 18, 2026
June 29, 202641 changesJune 22, 202612 changesJune 15, 2026184 changesJune 8, 202624 changesJune 1, 202622 changesMay 25, 202617 changesMay 18, 202616 changesMay 11, 202665 changesMay 4, 202616 changesApril 27, 202624 changesApril 20, 202627 changesApril 13, 202637 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,187Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,196Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
2GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,266
3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,264
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #12 overall1,187
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #22 overall1,159
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #23 overall1,159
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
grok-imagine-image-qualityImage · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±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

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 “—”.