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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 3, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,163Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,201Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #17 overall1,163
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #19 overall1,160
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #20 overall1,159
This week's changes
Grok 4.3Intelligence · #8New
mimo-v2.5-proCoding · #9New
gpt-5.5 (codex-harness)Coding · #15New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,163±10
2▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,160±10
3▼ 1Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,159±10
4—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,145±10
5▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,132±9
6▼ 1FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,131±9
7—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,110±9
8—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,106±9
9—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,093±9
10▲ 1FIBOOpenBria1,082±10
11▼ 1SRPOOpenTencent1,082±9
12—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,078±9
13—FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,072±9
14—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,064±10
15▲ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,061±9
16▼ 1Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,060±9
17—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,056±9
18—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,049±9
19—FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,037±12
20—FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,036±9
21—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,034±10
22—Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,030±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 Labs977±10
26—Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab973±9
27—Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI968±9
28—Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai948±10
29—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
30—Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai918±9
31—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance913±9
32—OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab911±10
33—BagelOpenByteDance907±10
34—Bria 3.2OpenBria899±10
35—Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai872±9
36—Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai746±11
37—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek712±13
38—Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai652±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 “—”.