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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 20, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338Score
Best open model
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338
2MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,266
3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,264
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #10 overall1,217
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #19 overall1,186
3Ideogram 4.0 QualityIdeogram · #28 overall1,168
This week's changes
kimi-k3-maxCoding · #1New
claude-opus-5-highCoding · #2New
Kimi K3Intelligence · #3New
glm-5.2-maxCoding · #5New
gemini-3.6-flashCoding · #13New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,264±9
2—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,189±7
3—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,186±8
4—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,171±9
5—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,164±7
6—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,163±9
7—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,161±9
8—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,155±8
9▲ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,142±8
10▼ 1Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,141±8
11—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,133±8
12—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,132±8
13—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,132±8
14—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,125±8
15—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,120±8
16—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,117±8
17—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,117±7
18—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,114±8
19—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,110±9
20—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,106±8
21—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,105±8
22—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,101±8
23—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,100±7
24—Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba1,099±9
25—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI1,092±8
26—HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,086±8
27—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,084±8
28—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,077±8
29—SRPOOpenTencent1,074±8
30—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,064±8
31—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,062±8
32—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,057±8
33—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,057±8
34—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,051±8
35—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,045±8
36—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,044±8
37—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,031±8
38—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,028±9
39—Step Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun976±11
40—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance903±8
41—BagelOpenByteDance896±10
42—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek709±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 “—”.