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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 · Updated September 22, 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 overall999
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% interval
1—Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,012±7
2—Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram1,004±8
3—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
4—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba999±10
5—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal998±9
6—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA992±8
7—Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal984±9
8—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal983±9
9—Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA983±8
10—Ideogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal981±9
11—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream979±8
12—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA970±8
13—Ideogram 4.0 FastOpenFal969±9
14—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent964±9
15—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent945±9
16—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba942±9
17—FLUX.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—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI889±7
22—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent887±9
23—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba886±7
24—HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream882±8
25—FIBOOpenBria880±8
26—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance874±9
27—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream873±10
28—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream869±9
29—SRPOOpenTencent866±8
30—FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs864±10
31—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan862±8
32—FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs844±9
33—FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs842±7
34—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai839±9
35—FIBO LiteOpenBria829±11
36—Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai828±9
37—FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs805±7
38—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs794±10
39—Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab781±9
40—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI776±8
41—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai759±10
42—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA754±10
43—OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab727±9
44—Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai720±9
45—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance719±9
46▲ 1BagelOpenByteDance705±9
47▼ 1Bria 3.2OpenBria705±11
48—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai677±9
49—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai548±11
50—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek533±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

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 “—”.