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1510 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published October 7, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,425Score
Best open model
qwen-image-2.1Alibaba1,223Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,255Score
Top three by Score
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,398
Top three open models
1qwen-image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,223
2ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #19 overall1,205
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #26 overall1,165
This week's changes
Utopai XVideo · #2New
Dreamina Seedance 2.5Video · #3New
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Intelligence · #5New
MiniMax H3 MaxVideo · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—qwen-image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,223±711,441
2—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,205±460,591
3—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,165±710,805
4—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,150±3180,518
5—flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±477,988
6—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±398,288
7—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,116±466,906
8—krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,113±451,552
9—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,083±524,808
10—flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,070±3150,782
11—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3716,773
12—flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,030±3152,389
13—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,012±94,854
14—flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs969±449,221
15—flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs941±4216,225
16—stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpen938±523,396
17—bagelOpenByteDance898±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 “—”.