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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 18, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall998
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,012±7
2▼ 1Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram1,004±8
3—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
4▲ 8Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba998±10
5▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal998±9
6▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA992±8
7▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal984±9
8▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal983±9
9▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA983±8
10▼ 3Ideogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal981±9
11▼ 1HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream979±8
12▲ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA970±8
13▼ 2Ideogram 4.0 FastOpenFal969±9
14—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent964±9
15▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent945±9
16▲ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba942±9
17▼ 2FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs940±9
18—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu923±9
19—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu913±9
20—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs902±9
21▲ 6GLM-ImageOpenZ AI889±7
22—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent886±9
23—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba885±7
24▲ 1HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream881±8
25▼ 1FIBOOpenBria880±8
26▲ 4Infinity 8BOpenByteDance873±9
27▼ 1HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream873±10
28—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream869±9
29▼ 8SRPOOpenTencent865±8
30▼ 1FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs864±10
31—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan861±8
32▲ 1FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs844±9
33▼ 1FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs842±7
34▲ 2Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai839±9
35▼ 1FIBO LiteOpenBria829±11
36▼ 1Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai828±9
37—FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs804±7
38▲ 1FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs793±10
39▼ 1Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab781±9
40—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI776±8
41—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai758±10
42—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA754±10
43▲ 1OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab727±9
44▼ 1Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai719±9
45—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance719±9
46▲ 1Bria 3.2OpenBria704±11
47▼ 1BagelOpenByteDance703±9
48—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai677±9
49—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai548±11
50—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek532±12

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

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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 “—”.