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1022 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 26, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published October 26, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,427Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,225Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Most voted
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)Google907,282Votes
Top three by Score
1GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,427
2GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,401
3GPT-Image-2 (Medium)OpenAI1,381
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,225
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #19 overall1,200
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #26 overall1,164
This week's changes
HeyGen Video 1Video · #3New
Kimi K3.1 ProIntelligence · #4New
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)Coding · #4New
GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)Coding · #13New
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashIntelligence · #18New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1▲ 1Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,254±611,444
2▼ 1Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,250±4105,824
3—Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,225±619,604
4NewQwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22)ClosedAlibaba1,191±613,092
5NewHunyuanImage 3.0OpenTencent1,151±3180,498
6—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance1,149±3318,120
7▲ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,140±3141,120
8NewSeedream 4.0 (2K)ClosedByteDance · 2 more variants1,139±712,563
9NewWan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,138±3247,795
10—Qwen-Image (2512)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants1,125±398,272
11NewWan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,117±3290,257
12NewHiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,115±477,624
13▲ 2Wan 2.7 Image ProClosedAlibaba1,103±530,224
14▲ 2Wan 2.7 ImageClosedAlibaba1,101±530,628
15▲ 2Z-Image-TurboOpenAlibaba1,082±524,963
16NewSeedream 3.0ClosedByteDance1,082±536,895
17▲ 3GLM-ImageOpenZ.ai1,012±94,854
18▲ 3BAGELOpenByteDance897±612,361

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 “—”.