Model rankings

1539 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of September 28, 2026

November 9, 202636 changes 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

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 28, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,196Score

Best open model

Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,035Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,196

2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,190

3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171

Top three open models

1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,035

2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #36 overall1,010

3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #40 overall1,000

This week's changes

Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New

Eleven v4Speech · #1New

Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New

claude-sonnet-5.5-xhighCoding · #3New

gpt-6.1-sol-maxCoding · #4New

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	1,010	±7
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	995	±8
3	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	970	±8
4	—	Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA	753	±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