Model rankings

505 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

Week of August 18, 2025

September 29, 202516 changes September 22, 20258 changes September 15, 20251 change September 8, 202513 changes September 1, 20253 changes August 25, 202519 changes August 18, 20255 changes August 11, 202524 changes August 4, 20259 changes July 28, 20254 changes July 21, 20252 changes July 14, 20258 changes

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 21, 2025

Best images

gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google1,147Score

Best open model

qwen-imageAlibaba1,049Score

Best from China

seedream-3ByteDance1,075Score

Most voted

imagen-3.0-generate-002Google208,007Votes

Top three by Score

1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google1,147

2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001Google1,133

3gpt-image-1OpenAI1,130

Top three open models

1qwen-imageAlibaba · #9 overall1,049

2flux-1-dev-fp8Black Forest Labs · #18 overall968

3flux-1-kontext-devBlack Forest Labs · #19 overall967

This week's changes

Mistral Medium 3.1Intelligence · #58New

Gemma 3 4B InstructIntelligence · #132Up 13

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)Intelligence · #32Up 7

GPT-4.1 miniIntelligence · #38Up 7

GPT-4.1 nanoIntelligence · #76Up 3

All Open Closed

All regions US China

One row per model All variants

SortScore Votes

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval	Votes
1	—	qwen-imageOpenAlibaba	1,049	±2	72,891
2	—	flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs	968	±3	50,585
3	—	flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs	967	±4	81,091
4	—	stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpenStability AI	936	±4	24,050
5	—	bagelOpenByteDance	916	±5	12,345

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