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1512 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 24, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,424Score
Best open model
qwen-image-2.1Alibaba1,228Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,256Score
Top three by Score
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,401
Top three open models
1qwen-image-2.1Alibaba · #17 overall1,228
2ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #18 overall1,205
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #25 overall1,165
This week's changes
claude-opus-5.5-maxCoding · #1New
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
Grok Imagine Image 2.0Image · #4New
gpt-6-sol-maxCoding · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newqwen-image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,228±94,445
2▼ 1ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,205±453,371
3▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,165±710,856
4▼ 1hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,150±3180,550
5▼ 1flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±478,080
6▼ 1qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±398,363
7▼ 1hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,116±459,511
8▼ 1krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,113±543,913
9▼ 1z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,084±524,291
10▼ 1flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,070±3150,780
11▼ 1qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3716,829
12▼ 1flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,030±3152,358
13▼ 1glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,012±94,852
14▼ 1flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs969±449,221
15▼ 1flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs941±4216,238
16▼ 1stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpen938±523,396
17▼ 1bagelOpenByteDance898±612,363

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 “—”.