Model rankings

1447 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of August 24, 2026

October 5, 202634 changes September 28, 202617 changes September 21, 2026115 changes 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

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

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

Best images

GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,369Score

Best open model

Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,220Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,281Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,369

2Reve 2.1Reve1,322

3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,320

Top three open models

1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #21 overall1,220

2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #36 overall1,200

3Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #37 overall1,200

This week's changes

hy4-previewCoding · #5New

GLM-5.3 (max)Intelligence · #6New

MAI-Image-2.5-ProImage · #7New

qwen3.8-flash-nextCoding · #8New

glm-5.3-flashCoding · #11New

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval
1	—	Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant	1,220	±9
2	New	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	1,188	±9
3	New	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	1,158	±9
4	▼ 2	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