Model rankings

1432 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of August 17, 2026

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 18, 2026

Best images

Best open model

Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,216Score

Best from China

Top three by Score

2Reve 2.1Reve1,321

Top three open models

1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #24 overall1,216

3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #36 overall1,198

This week's changes

Sonic 3.6Speech · #1New

Grok 4.6 (high)Intelligence · #4New

Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BIntelligence · #7New

glm-5.3-maxCoding · #8New

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval
1	—	Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant	1,216	±9
2	▲ 1	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	939	±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