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Week of September 15, 2025
October 27, 20253 changesOctober 20, 20252 changesOctober 13, 202518 changesOctober 6, 20257 changesSeptember 29, 202516 changesSeptember 22, 20258 changesSeptember 15, 20251 changeSeptember 8, 202513 changesSeptember 1, 20253 changesAugust 25, 202519 changesAugust 18, 20255 changesAugust 11, 202524 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 18, 2025

Best images
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google1,150Score
Best open model
qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba1,086Score
Best from China
seedream-4-falByteDance1,120Score
Most voted
qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba513,217Votes
Top three by Score
1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google1,150
2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001Google1,142
3imagen-4.0-generate-001Google1,126
Top three open models
1qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba · #6 overall1,086
2qwen-imageAlibaba · #9 overall1,064
3flux-1-kontext-devBlack Forest Labs · #20 overall970
This week's changes
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #13New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2494,767
2—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,142±3414,612
3▲ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,126±3415,985
4▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,125±4183,877
5—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,062±3396,002
6▲ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,053±811,598
7▲ 1lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,032±3254,560
8▲ 1ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,009±473,285
9▼ 3photonClosedLuma AI1,007±532,572
10—gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle995±3262,400
11—dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI978±4254,083

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 “—”.