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1209 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published May 12, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,393Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #18 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #19 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #25 overall1,130
This week's changes
HiDream-O1-ImageImage · #31New
JT-35B-FlashIntelligence · #67New
granite-4.1-8bCoding · #68New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3172,941
2—flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,149±557,608
3—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,130±465,741
4—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,086±617,360
5—flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,068±3125,752
6—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3689,360
7—flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,028±3127,643
8—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,011±94,613
9—flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs969±449,221
10—flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs940±4216,296
11—stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpen938±423,396
12—bagelOpenByteDance898±612,443

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 “—”.