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1447 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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
Top three by Score
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
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
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,258±103,735
2—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±526,510
3—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,026
4—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,366
5—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,146±3234,737
6—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,639
7—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,136±496,040
8—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3182,381
9—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,126±491,329
10—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,118±434,179
11—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3230,234
12—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,911
13—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,579
14—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,745
15—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,087
16—seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±537,009
17—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,081±620,856
18—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3706,588
19—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,010±94,626
20—bagelOpenByteDance898±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 “—”.