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1028 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published February 20, 2026

Best images
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #8 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #9 overall1,151
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #13 overall1,140
This week's changes
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewIntelligence · #1New
Kling 3.0 ProVideo · #1New
claude-sonnet-4-6Coding · #2New
Veo 3.1Video · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,247±546,513
2—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,237±545,431
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,233±583,649
4—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,156±3662,751
5—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,149±4390,155
6—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±3446,148
7—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3257,162
8—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,101±489,979
9—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,094±478,897
10—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,059±3361,591
11—ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,050±4115,776
12—photonClosedLuma AI1,037±4127,983
13—lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±3287,570
14—ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,015±372,113
15—gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle976±3258,659
16—dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI969±4240,471

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 “—”.