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Week of November 9, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Most voted
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)Google894,571Votes
Top three by Score
1GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429
2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)OpenAI1,406
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.6 Flare (max)Image · #3New
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,227±617,883
2—Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,199±477,406
3—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,164±710,160
4—HunyuanImage 3.0OpenTencent1,152±3175,293
5—Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA1,150±617,450
6—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,145±475,695
7—Qwen-Image (2512)OpenAlibaba1,124±395,381
8—Krea 2 TurboOpenKrea1,116±463,653
9—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,115±475,930
10—Z-Image-TurboOpenAlibaba1,082±524,125
11—FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,070±3147,202
12—Qwen-Image (Prompt Extend)OpenAlibaba1,061±3706,651
13—Qwen-ImageOpenAlibaba1,057±384,293
14—FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,030±3148,810
15—GLM-ImageOpenZ.ai1,012±94,761
16—FLUX.1 [dev] (FP8)OpenBlack Forest Labs969±449,221
17—FLUX.1 Kontext [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs941±4214,391
18—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpen938±423,396
19—BAGELOpenByteDance897±612,316

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

Arena data comes from the leaderboard dataset it publishes on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Only each board's overall leaderboard is used; scores and ranks are unchanged. dataset · CC BY 4.0

Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.