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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 18, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall998
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,088±10
2—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,078±8
3—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,076±10
4—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,029±9
5▲ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,025±10
6▲ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,023±9
7▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,022±8
8▲ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,021±9
9▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,013±9
10—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,010±9
11▲ 2Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba998±10
12▲ 1Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba987±9
13▼ 2Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba983±9
14▼ 2HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream979±8
15▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent964±9
16▲ 2Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba961±9
17▲ 3Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba960±8
18▼ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed959±9
19▲ 2HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent945±9
20▼ 3Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream944±9
21▼ 2Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI944±9
22—Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba942±9
23▲ 6Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba937±8
24—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu923±9
25▼ 2Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream923±9
26—Vidu Q2ClosedVidu921±7
27—Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI914±8
28▼ 3ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu913±9
29▼ 1Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance912±7
30▲ 6GLM-ImageOpenZ AI889±7
31—HunyuanImage 2.1OpenTencent886±9
32—Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba885±7
33—HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream881±8
34▲ 3Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba874±8
35▲ 4Infinity 8BOpenByteDance873±9
36▼ 2HiDream-I1-DevOpenHiDream873±10
37▲ 1HiDream-I1-FastOpenHiDream869±9
38▼ 8SRPOOpenTencent865±8
39▲ 1LongCat ImageOpenMeituan861±8
40▼ 5Image-01ClosedMiniMax860±9
41—Step Image Edit 2ClosedStepFun797±11
42—SDXL LightningOpenByteDance719±9
43—BagelOpenByteDance703±9
44—Janus ProOpenDeepSeek532±12

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 “—”.