Model rankings

1542 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of October 12, 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 October 12, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,198Score

Best open model

Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,036Score

Best from China

Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,087Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,198

2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,191

3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,172

Top three open models

1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,036

2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #39 overall1,012

3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #43 overall1,000

This week's changes

Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)Coding · #1New

Eleven v4 TurboSpeech · #1New

GPT-6 Astra (Max)Coding · #2New

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Coding · #3New

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)Coding · #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	1,012	±7
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	995	±8
3	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	972	±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