Model rankings

1388 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of July 27, 2026

September 7, 2026144 changes August 31, 202620 changes August 24, 202615 changes August 17, 202633 changes August 10, 2026116 changes August 3, 202613 changes July 27, 202639 changes July 20, 202618 changes July 13, 202611 changes July 6, 202626 changes June 29, 202641 changes June 22, 202612 changes

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 29, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340Score

Best open model

Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,218Score

Best from China

HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,246Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340

2Reve 2.1Reve1,299

3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270

Top three open models

1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,218

2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #21 overall1,190

3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #25 overall1,182

This week's changes

Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #1New

claude-opus-5-maxCoding · #1New

Reve 2.1Image · #2New

MiniMax H3Video · #2New

qwen3.8-maxCoding · #4New

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval
1	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA	1,218	±8
2	New	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	1,182	±10
3	New	Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram	1,175	±8
4	▼ 1	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	934	±9

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