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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 26, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,170Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,203Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #16 overall1,170
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #18 overall1,162
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #20 overall1,160
This week's changes
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2 (high)Image · #1New
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
kimi-k2.6Coding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,170±10
2—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,162±10
3—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,160±10
4—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,145±10
5—FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,135±9
6—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,133±9
7—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,110±9
8—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,107±9
9—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,094±9
10▲ 1SRPOOpenTencent1,082±9
11▼ 1FIBOOpenBria1,081±10
12▲ 1HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,078±9
13▼ 1FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,073±9
14—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,066±10
15▲ 1Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,061±9
16▲ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,057±9
17▼ 2GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,057±9
18—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,050±9
19▲ 1FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,041±12
20▲ 1FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,038±9
21▼ 2LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,037±10
22—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,031±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 Labs979±10
26—Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab972±9
27—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI970±9
28—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai949±10
29—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
30—Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai917±9
31▲ 1SDXL LightningOpenByteDance913±9
32▼ 1OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab912±10
33—BagelOpenByteDance908±11
34—Bria 3.2OpenBria899±11
35—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai871±9
36—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai749±11
37—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek713±13
38—Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai650±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 “—”.