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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 8, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,421Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,257Score
Top three by Score
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,399
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #17 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #24 overall1,167
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #30 overall1,151
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±462,443
2—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,920
3—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,005
4—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,099
5—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3259,145
6—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
7—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3109,182
8—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3201,108
9—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±492,541
10—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3248,411
11—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,117±448,201
12—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
13—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,361
14—wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,729
15—wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,089
16—z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,084±522,251
17—seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,920
18—qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3705,193
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 “—”.