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Week of August 3, 2026
September 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 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 7, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,206Score
Best from China
qwen-image-3.0-proAlibaba1,258Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google822,940Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380
2reve-2.1Reve1,302
3muse-imageMeta1,283
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #14 overall1,206
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #18 overall1,181
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #27 overall1,151
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #17Up 18
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newqwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,258±103,735
2▼ 1seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±526,510
3▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,026
4▼ 1hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,366
5▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,146±3234,737
6▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,639
7—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,136±496,040
8▼ 2wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3182,381
9▼ 1qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,126±491,329
10▼ 1hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,118±434,179
11—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3230,234
12▼ 2seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,911
13▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,579
14▼ 1wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,745
15▼ 1wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,087
16▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±537,009
17▼ 1z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,081±620,856
18▼ 1qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3706,588
19▼ 1glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,010±94,626
20▼ 1bagelOpenByteDance898±612,404

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 “—”.