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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 26, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,170Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,203Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #16 overall1,170
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #18 overall1,162
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #20 overall1,160
This week's changes
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2 (high)Image · #1New
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
kimi-k2.6Coding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,203±9
2—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,167±9
3—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,162±10
4—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,156±9
5—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,146±10
6▲ 2Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,139±9
7▼ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,138±9
8▲ 1Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,138±9
9▼ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,134±10
10—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,133±9
11—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,126±10
12—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,114±9
13▲ 1Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,114±9
14▼ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,110±9
15—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,107±9
16—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,090±9
17—SRPOOpenTencent1,082±9
18—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,080±9
19—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,078±9
20—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,066±10
21—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,063±10
22▲ 1Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,061±9
23▲ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,057±9
24▼ 2GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,057±9
25▲ 1Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,050±9
26▼ 1Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,046±9
27—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,037±10
28—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance913±9
29—BagelOpenByteDance908±11
30—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek713±13

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 “—”.