Model rankings

1492 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of September 7, 2026

October 19, 2026247 changes October 12, 2026127 changes 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

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 9, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,178Score

Best open model

Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,017Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,086Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,178

2MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft AI1,149

3Reve 2.1Reve1,127

Top three open models

1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #28 overall1,017

2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #38 overall1,000

3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #41 overall999

This week's changes

Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New

GPT-6 Astra (max)Intelligence · #2New

MAI-Image-2.6Image · #2New

Realtime TTS-2Speech · #2New

Muse Spark 1.3 (max)Intelligence · #5New

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	1,017	±9
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	995	±9
3	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	965	±9
4	—	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	741	±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