Model rankings

505 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

Week of August 18, 2025

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 21, 2025

Best images

Best open model

qwen-imageAlibaba1,049Score

Best from China

seedream-3ByteDance1,075Score

Most voted

Top three by Score

3gpt-image-1OpenAI1,130

Top three open models

1qwen-imageAlibaba · #9 overall1,049

2flux-1-dev-fp8Black Forest Labs · #18 overall968

3flux-1-kontext-devBlack Forest Labs · #19 overall967

This week's changes

Mistral Medium 3.1Intelligence · #58New

Gemma 3 4B InstructIntelligence · #132Up 13

GPT-4.1 miniIntelligence · #38Up 7

GPT-4.1 nanoIntelligence · #76Up 3

Rank	Change	Model	Score	95% interval	Votes
1	—	seedream-3ClosedByteDance	1,075	±3	104,450
2	—	qwen-imageOpenAlibaba	1,049	±2	72,891
3	—	bagelOpenByteDance	916	±5	12,345

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