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1209 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published May 12, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,393Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #18 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #19 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #25 overall1,130
This week's changes
HiDream-O1-ImageImage · #31New
JT-35B-FlashIntelligence · #67New
granite-4.1-8bCoding · #68New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22ClosedAlibaba1,168±85,106
2—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3172,941
3—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,142±3180,572
4—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,141±712,625
5—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,134±3136,784
6—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,130±465,741
7—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,123±462,952
8—qwen-image-2.0-2026-03-03ClosedAlibaba1,119±548,083
9▲ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3187,670
10▼ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±611,861
11—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,112±3163,879
12—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,148
13—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,099±528,437
14—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,086±617,360
15—seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,920
16—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3689,360
17—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,011±94,613
18—bagelOpenByteDance898±612,443

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 “—”.