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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337Score
Best open model
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,263Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337
2Reve 2.0Reve1,278
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,267
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #9 overall1,221
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #21 overall1,184
3Ideogram 4.0 QualityIdeogram · #29 overall1,166
This week's changes
Simba 3.2Speech · #1New
GPT-5.6 Sol (max)Intelligence · #2New
GPT-5.6 Terra (max)Intelligence · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,263±9
2—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,188±8
3—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,184±8
4—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,170±9
5—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,163±9
6—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,163±8
7—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,161±9
8—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,154±8
9—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,144±8
10—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,142±8
11▲ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,132±8
12▲ 1Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,131±9
13▼ 2Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,131±8
14—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,125±8
15—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,121±8
16▲ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,117±8
17▼ 1Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,117±8
18—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,114±8
19—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,111±9
20—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,104±8
21▲ 1Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,103±8
22▲ 2Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,103±8
23—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,101±8
24▼ 3Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba1,101±9
25—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI1,094±8
26—HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,087±9
27—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,084±8
28—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,076±8
29—SRPOOpenTencent1,071±8
30—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,066±8
31—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,063±8
32—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,058±8
33—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,054±8
34—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,051±8
35—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,043±8
36—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,043±8
37—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,031±8
38—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,029±9
39NewStep Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun975±11
40▼ 1SDXL LightningOpenByteDance903±8
41▼ 1BagelOpenByteDance896±10
42▼ 1Janus ProOpenDeepSeek710±12

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 “—”.