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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 19, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,275Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,167Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,202Score
Top three by Score
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,262
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #15 overall1,167
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,161
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #18 overall1,158
This week's changes
claude-opus-4-7Coding · #1New
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
ImagineArt 2.0Image · #11New
AsyncFlow V2, asyncSpeech · #32New
Lightning v3.1Speech · #46New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,167±10
2—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,161±10
3—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,158±10
4—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,144±10
5—FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,137±9
6—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,133±9
7—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,113±9
8—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,106±10
9—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,090±9
10—FIBOOpenBria1,081±10
11▲ 1SRPOOpenTencent1,079±9
12▼ 1FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,078±9
13—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,078±9
14▲ 1HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,063±10
15▲ 1GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,059±9
16▼ 2Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,056±9
17—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,055±9
18—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,048±9
19▲ 2LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,045±10
20▼ 1FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,044±13
21▼ 1FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,036±9
22—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,029±9
23—Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai1,023±9
24—FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
25—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs981±10
26▲ 1Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab971±9
27▼ 1Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI969±9
28—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai946±10
29—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA940±10
30▲ 1Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai913±9
31▲ 1OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab913±10
32▲ 2SDXL LightningOpenByteDance907±9
33▼ 3BagelOpenByteDance906±11
34▼ 1Bria 3.2OpenBria898±11
35—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai869±9
36—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai747±11
37—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek707±13
38—Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai645±14

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 “—”.