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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 3, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,245Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
2Reve 2.1Reve1,299
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,219
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #22 overall1,188
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #27 overall1,176
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,245±8
2—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,240±9
3—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,192±7
4—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,188±7
5—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,174±8
6—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,169±7
7—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,166±8
8—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,163±8
9—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,158±8
10—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,147±8
11—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,145±8
12—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,139±7
13—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,136±8
14—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,135±8
15—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,129±8
16—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,125±8
17—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,120±7
18▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,119±8
19▼ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,119±8
20—HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,115±8
21—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,109±7
22—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,107±8
23—Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba1,105±8
24—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,102±7
25—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,102±7
26—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI1,097±7
27—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,091±8
28▲ 2SRPOOpenTencent1,080±8
29—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,079±7
30▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream1,079±8
31—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,064±8
32▲ 1Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,062±8
33▼ 1HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,062±8
34—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,058±8
35—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,055±8
36—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,050±8
37—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,046±8
38—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,038±8
39—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,031±8
40—Step Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun984±10
41—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance906±8
42—BagelOpenByteDance900±9
43—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek712±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 “—”.