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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,187Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,196Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #12 overall1,187
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #22 overall1,159
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #23 overall1,159
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,196±9
2—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,187±9
3—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,165±9
4—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,159±9
5—Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,155±9
6—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,149±9
7—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,139±9
8—Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,139±9
9—Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,137±9
10▲ 1Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,134±10
11▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,128±9
12▼ 2HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,128±10
13—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba1,118±9
14—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,118±9
15—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,115±9
16—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,111±9
17—HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,110±9
18—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,106±9
19—Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba1,105±9
20—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI1,103±9
21—Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,090±9
22—Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba1,081±9
23—SRPOOpenTencent1,076±9
24—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent1,070±9
25—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba1,061±9
26—HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream1,060±9
27—HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream1,058±9
28—Image-01ClosedMiniMax1,058±9
29—GLM-ImageOpenZ AI1,054±9
30—Infinity 8BOpenByteDance1,047±9
31—Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba1,042±9
32—LongCat ImageOpenMeituan1,037±10
33—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance912±9
34—BagelOpenByteDance905±10
35—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek714±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 “—”.