Model rankings

1512 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of September 21, 2026

November 2, 202641 changes October 26, 20269 changes 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

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 22, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score

Best open model

Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188

2GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,182

3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171

Top three open models

1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012

2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000

3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall999

This week's changes

claude-opus-5.5-maxCoding · #1New

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New

Grok Imagine Image 2.0Image · #4New

gpt-6-sol-maxCoding · #5New

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSSpeech · #6New

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval
1	—	Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant	1,012	±7
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	992	±8
3	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	970	±8
4	—	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	754	±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