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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 29, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,242Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,157Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,181Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,205
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #11 overall1,157
2Qwen Image 2512Alibaba · #15 overall1,139
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #16 overall1,139
This week's changes
grok-imagine-videoVideo · #1New
Inworld TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)Intelligence · #3New
kimi-k2.5-thinkingCoding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,181—
2—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,164—
3—Qwen Image 2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,139—
4—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,135—
5NewWan Text to Image V2ClosedAlibaba1,133—
6▼ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,131—
7▼ 1Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,127—
8▼ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,124—
9NewWan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,119—
10NewKolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,118—
11▼ 3HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,114—
12▼ 3Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,100—
13▼ 3Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,094—
14▼ 3Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,075—
15▼ 3SRPOOpenTencent1,073—
16▼ 1Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,053—
17▼ 3HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,051—
18▼ 5GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,050—
19▼ 3HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,043—
20▼ 3HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,041—
21▼ 3Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,033—
22▼ 3LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,017—
23▼ 3BagelOpenByteDance909—
24▼ 3SDXL LightningOpenByteDance887—
25▼ 3Janus 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 “—”.