Skip to content
IFAI

Model rankings

896 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Top three by Score
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstClosedOpenAI1,429±557,928
2—GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,406±132,718
3—GPT-Image-2.5 FlareClosedOpenAI1,400±557,020
4—GPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±132,551
5—GPT-Image-2 (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±4106,021
6—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,329±538,700
7—Gemini Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±94,966
8—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,319±79,959
9—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,909
10—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,268±615,323
11—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,266±557,330
12—Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search)ClosedGoogle1,256±477,579
13—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±459,127
14—Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,249±617,149
15—Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K)ClosedGoogle1,246±3185,022
16—GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity)ClosedOpenAI1,236±3169,495
17—Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,231±583,834
18—Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,199±477,406
19—UNI-1.1 MaxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,748
20—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±550,455
21—UNI-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±458,725
22—Grok Imagine ImageClosedxAI1,168±3287,761
23—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,164±710,160
24—Grok Imagine Image ProClosedxAI1,160±497,014
25—Reve v1.5ClosedReve1,154±438,512
26—Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,149±2894,571
27—Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,146±4385,852
28—Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,128±474,643
29—Imagen 4 (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,128±3533,366
30—Krea 2 TurboOpenKrea1,116±463,653
31—GPT-Image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,925
32—Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,114±468,026
33—GPT-Image-1 miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3167,858
34—MAI-Image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±496,286
35—Imagen 3 (generate-002)ClosedGoogle1,057±3358,317
36—Ideogram 3.0 (Quality)ClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,848
37—Luma PhotonClosedLuma AI1,036±4127,882
38—Runway Gen-4ClosedRunway1,024±453,242
39—Ideogram 2.0ClosedIdeogram1,013±472,090
40—Lucid OriginClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±3284,819
41—Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview Image GenerationClosedGoogle976±3255,481
42—DALL-E 3ClosedOpenAI968±4238,180

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 “—”.