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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 12, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,265Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,163Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,185Score
Top three by Score
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,254
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #15 overall1,163
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,150
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #20 overall1,148
This week's changes
HappyHorse-1.0Video · #1New
glm-5.1Coding · #2New
Eleven v3Speech · #2New
Speech 2.8 HDSpeech · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,163±12
2—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,150±12
3—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,148±12
4—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,137±11
5—FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,134±10
6—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,121±11
7—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,114±10
8—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,103±9
9—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,077±10
10—FIBOOpenBria1,070±11
11—FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,069±10
12—SRPOOpenTencent1,067±11
13—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,066±10
14—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,060±11
15▲ 1HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,048±13
16▼ 1GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,048±10
17—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,046±12
18—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,041±13
19—FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,039±19
20—FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,039±7
21—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,034±13
22—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,027±9
23—Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai1,019±9
24—FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
25—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs981±10
26—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI970±6
27—Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab966±10
28—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai942±14
29—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA935±14
30—BagelOpenByteDance911±13
31—Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai906±7
32—OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab899±13
33—Bria 3.2OpenBria895±13
34—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance894±6
35—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai856±6
36—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai729±7
37—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek703±13
38—Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai617±9

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 “—”.