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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,187Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,196Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #12 overall1,187
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #22 overall1,159
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #23 overall1,159
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,187±9
2▲ 1Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,159±9
3▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,159±9
4▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,159±9
5—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,143±9
6▲ 2FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,129±9
7—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,128±9
8▼ 2HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,128±10
9▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,110±9
10▲ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,106±9
11▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,100±10
12—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,086±9
13—FIBOOpenBria1,077±9
14—SRPOOpenTencent1,076±9
15—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,070±9
16—FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,070±9
17—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,061±9
18—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,060±9
19—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,058±9
20—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,054±9
21—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,047±9
22—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,037±10
23—FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,035±12
24—FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,033±8
25—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,029±9
26—Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai1,021±9
27—FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
28—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs976±9
29—Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab971±9
30—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI967±8
31—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai946±10
32—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
33—Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai919±9
34—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance912±9
35—OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab909±10
36—BagelOpenByteDance905±10
37—Bria 3.2OpenBria898±10
38—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai875±9
39—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai752±11
40—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek714±13
41—Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai659±13

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 “—”.