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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 23, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,245Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,158Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,185Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,206
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #13 overall1,158
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #15 overall1,143
3Qwen Image 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,143
This week's changes
gpt-5.2-codexCoding · #17New
FLUX.2 [klein] 9BImage · #21New
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BImage · #43New
FLUX.2 [klein] 4BImage · #48New
GLM-ImageImage · #49New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,185—
2—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,168—
3▲ 12Qwen Image 2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,143—
4▼ 1Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,139—
5▼ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,135—
6▼ 1Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,133—
7▼ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,128—
8▼ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,117—
9▼ 1Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,105—
10▼ 1Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,096—
11▼ 1Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,077—
12▼ 1SRPOOpenTencent1,073—
13NewGLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,057—
14▼ 2HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,055—
15▼ 2Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,052—
16▼ 2HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,049—
17▼ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,046—
18▼ 1Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,032—
19—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,019—
20—BagelOpenByteDance913—
21—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance887—
22—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek677—

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 “—”.