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

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

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,163Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,201Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #17 overall1,163
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #19 overall1,160
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #20 overall1,159
This week's changes
Grok 4.3Intelligence · #8New
mimo-v2.5-proCoding · #9New
gpt-5.5 (codex-harness)Coding · #15New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,201±9
2—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,168±9
3—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,159±10
4—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,159±9
5—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,147±10
6▲ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,143±9
7▼ 1Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,139±9
8—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,139±9
9—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,136±10
10—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,132±9
11—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,123±10
12▲ 1Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,114±9
13▼ 1Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,113±9
14—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,110±9
15—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,106±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-DevOpenHiDream1,064±10
21—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,062±9
22▲ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,061±9
23▼ 1Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,060±9
24—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,056±9
25—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,049±9
26—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,044±9
27—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,034±10
28—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance913±9
29—BagelOpenByteDance907±10
30—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek712±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 “—”.