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1470 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 4, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,382Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,258Score
Top three by Score
2mai-image-2.6Microsoft AI1,332
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #15 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #22 overall1,168
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #28 overall1,151
This week's changes
gpt-6-astra-maxCoding · #1New
Wan 3.0Video · #1New
claude-fable-5.1-maxCoding · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6-PreviewImage · #2New
GLM-5.3-FlashIntelligence · #9New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,204±440,898
2—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,168±86,667
3—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,129
4—flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±473,979
5—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±492,570
6—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,117±447,012
7—krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,110±531,944
8—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,084±622,157
9—flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,070±3142,658
10—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3705,235
11—flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,030±3144,507
12—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,010±94,624
13—flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs969±449,221
14—flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs940±4215,347
15—stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpen938±523,396
16—bagelOpenByteDance898±612,375

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 “—”.