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1470 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 4, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,382Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,258Score
Top three by Score
2mai-image-2.6Microsoft AI1,332
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #15 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #22 overall1,168
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #28 overall1,151
This week's changes
gpt-6-astra-maxCoding · #1New
Wan 3.0Video · #1New
claude-fable-5.1-maxCoding · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6-PreviewImage · #2New
GLM-5.3-FlashIntelligence · #9New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1▲ 1seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,258±459,484
2▼ 1qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,923
3—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,016
4—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,129
5—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3257,160
6—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
7—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3108,001
8—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3199,498
9—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±492,570
10▲ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3246,875
11▼ 1hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,117±447,012
12—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
13—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,382
14—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,733
15—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,093
16▲ 1z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,084±622,157
17▼ 1seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,921
18—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3705,235
19—glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,010±94,624
20—bagelOpenByteDance898±612,375

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 “—”.