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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published February 7, 2026

Best images
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,150Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,150Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #10 overall1,150
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #11 overall1,148
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #15 overall1,138
This week's changes
claude-opus-4-6Coding · #1New
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #6New
kimi-k2.5-instantCoding · #9New
Qwen3-Coder-NextIntelligence · #53New
Step3 VL 10BIntelligence · #151New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,237±544,375
2—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,231±544,490
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,227±491,441
4Newgrok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±85,300
5▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,168±68,398
6▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,154±3752,601
7▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,144±4481,948
8▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,131±3535,721
9▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3290,490
10▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,103±492,440
11▼ 1mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,095±480,225
12▼ 1imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,062±3422,829
13▼ 1ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,054±3128,559
14▼ 1photonClosedLuma AI1,043±3140,020
15▼ 1lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,023±3353,421
16▼ 1ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,020±374,729
17▼ 1gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle983±3305,213
18▼ 1dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI979±3271,088

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 “—”.