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1447 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of August 24, 2026
October 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,369Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,220Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,281Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,369
2Reve 2.1Reve1,322
3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,320
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #21 overall1,220
2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #36 overall1,200
3Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #37 overall1,200
This week's changes
hy4-previewCoding · #5New
GLM-5.3 (max)Intelligence · #6New
MAI-Image-2.5-ProImage · #7New
qwen3.8-flash-nextCoding · #8New
glm-5.3-flashCoding · #11New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,220±9
2▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,200±10
3▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal · 1 more variant1,200±10
4—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,199±7
5NewCosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,188±9
6▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal1,184±10
7▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,179±10
8▼ 1HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,173±8
9▼ 1Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,172±9
10NewCosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA1,158±9
11▼ 2HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,150±10
12▼ 2FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,143±9
13▼ 2HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,138±10
14▼ 2Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,131±9
15▼ 2FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,099±8
16▼ 1SRPOOpenTencent1,086±8
17▼ 3Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,081±8
18▼ 2HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,079±8
19▼ 2FIBOOpenBria1,076±8
20▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,073±8
21▼ 2HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,072±9
22▼ 2GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,069±8
23▼ 2HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,064±9
24▼ 1FLUX.2 [klein] 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,058±9
25▼ 3Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,057±9
26▼ 2LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,052±8
27▼ 2FLUX.1 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,042±7
28▼ 2FLUX.1 Krea [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,038±9
29▼ 2Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large TurboOpenStability.ai1,036±8
30▼ 2Stable Diffusion 3.5 LargeOpenStability.ai1,036±8
31▼ 2FLUX.1 [schnell]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
32▼ 2Lumina Image v2OpenOpenGVLab979±8
33▼ 2Playground v2.5OpenPlayground AI974±8
34▼ 2FLUX.2 [klein] Base 4BOpenBlack Forest Labs974±9
35▼ 2Stable Diffusion 3.5 MediumOpenStability.ai964±9
36▼ 2Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
37▼ 2Stable Diffusion 3 MediumOpenStability.ai924±8
38▼ 2OmniGen V2OpenVectorSpaceLab914±9
39▼ 2SDXL LightningOpenByteDance912±8
40▼ 2BagelOpenByteDance909±9
41▼ 2Bria 3.2OpenBria907±10
42▼ 2Stable Diffusion XL 1.0OpenStability.ai884±9
43▼ 2Stable Diffusion 2.1OpenStability.ai754±10
44▼ 2Janus ProOpenDeepSeek722±12
45▼ 2Stable Diffusion 1.5OpenStability.ai667±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 “—”.