Model rankings

1396 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of August 3, 2026

September 14, 2026174 changes 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

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 3, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score

Best open model

Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,219Score

Best from China

HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,245Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339

2Reve 2.1Reve1,299

3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270

Top three open models

1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,219

2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #22 overall1,188

3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #27 overall1,176

This week's changes

muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New

gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New

Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New

Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #17Up 18

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	1,219	±8
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	1,176	±10
3	—	Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram	1,174	±8
4	—	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	933	±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