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1319 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published July 2, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,386Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,207Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #10 overall1,207
2hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #22 overall1,151
3flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #24 overall1,148
This week's changes
Reve 2.0Image · #2New
claude-sonnet-5-thinkingCoding · #5New
Fish Audio S2.1 ProSpeech · #15New
OpenAudio S1 MiniSpeech · #50New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,207±615,512
2—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3172,742
3—flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,148±560,799
4—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,128±481,516
5—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,122±521,850
6Newkrea-2-turboOpenKrea1,112±86,006
7▼ 1z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,081±619,603
8▼ 1flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,069±3142,248
9▼ 1qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3704,491
10▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,057±615,689
11▼ 1flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,030±3144,056
12▼ 1glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,011±94,612
13▼ 1flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs970±449,221
14▼ 1flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs940±4215,336
15▼ 1stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpen938±423,396
16▼ 1bagelOpenByteDance898±612,406

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 “—”.