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1037 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 19, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 2, 202641 changesOctober 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated October 20, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,042Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,101Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,207
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,186
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #21 overall1,042
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #29 overall1,026
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #43 overall1,000
This week's changes
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Intelligence · #3New
FLUX 3 Max (720p)Video · #4New
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Coding · #6New
Muse Wonder (Max)Intelligence · #7New
Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max)Coding · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,101±11
2▼ 1Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,095±12
3—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,070±12
4NewQwen-Image-2.1-ProClosedAlibaba1,057±12
5▼ 1Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,042±12
6▼ 1Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,030±11
7NewQwen-Image-2.1-TurboClosedAlibaba1,029±12
8▼ 1Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,027±12
9▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,027±12
10▼ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,018±11
11—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,017±12
12▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,014±12
13—Ming-Image-0.1-DesignOpenInclusionAI999±9
14▲ 6Qwen Image 2.0 (2026-03-03)ClosedAlibaba990±16
15▲ 1HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent Cloud)ClosedTencent · 1 more variant989±16
16▼ 2HunyuanImage 3.0 InstructOpenTencent987±12
17▼ 2Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba986±12
18▼ 1Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba979±12
19▼ 1HiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream975±10
20▼ 1HunyuanImage 3.5 (Preview)ClosedTencent970±12
21▲ 5Qwen Image Plus 2601ClosedAlibaba952±16
22▲ 3Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba935±11
23▲ 9Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance931±17
24▲ 6Kling Image 3.0 OmniClosedKlingAI918±17
25▲ 2ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu914±10
26▲ 5ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu908±10
27▲ 7Qwen ImageOpenAlibaba904±18
28▲ 1Vidu Q2ClosedVidu896±17
29▲ 7Z-Image BaseClosedAlibaba892±17
30▲ 3GLM-ImageOpenZ AI885±18
31▲ 12LongCat ImageOpenMeituan856±19
32▲ 9SRPOOpenTencent826±21
33▲ 4HiDream-O1-Image-DevOpenHiDream810±20
34▲ 12BagelOpenByteDance595±35

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 “—”.