Model rankings

1022 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Week of October 26, 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 26, 2026

Best images

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222Score

Best open model

FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs1,043Score

Best from China

Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,100Score

Top three by Score

1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222

2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,207

3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,186

Top three open models

1FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs · #21 overall1,043

2Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #22 overall1,042

3Fibo 2.0Bria · #23 overall1,039

This week's changes

HeyGen Video 1Video · #3New

Kimi K3.1 ProIntelligence · #4New

Gemini 4 Carbon (High)Coding · #4New

GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)Coding · #13New

MiniMax-M3.1-FlashIntelligence · #18New

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	1,026	±10
2	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant	993	±10
3	—	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA	970	±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