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Week of February 23, 2026
April 6, 202641 changesMarch 30, 2026230 changesMarch 23, 202626 changesMarch 16, 202622 changesMarch 9, 202665 changesMarch 2, 202663 changesFebruary 23, 202613 changesFebruary 16, 202616 changesFebruary 9, 202641 changesFebruary 2, 20266 changesJanuary 26, 2026177 changesJanuary 19, 202610 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published February 26, 2026

Best images
gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]Google1,280Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google668,407Votes
Top three by Score
1gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]Google1,280
2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityOpenAI1,248
3gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)Google1,238
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #10 overall1,152
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #11 overall1,152
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #15 overall1,139
This week's changes
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Image · #1New
Kling 3.0 Omni ProVideo · #2New
Kling 3.0 Omni StandardVideo · #10New
qwen3.5-397b-a17bCoding · #14New
Recraft V4 ProImage · #34New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newgemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,280±122,965
2▼ 1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,248±549,585
3▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,238±547,724
4▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,233±583,644
5Newreve-v1.5ClosedReve1,178±68,013
6▼ 2gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,156±3668,407
7▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,149±4390,152
8▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±3449,276
9▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3260,094
10▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,101±492,952
11▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,094±481,881
12▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,059±3361,586
13▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,050±4115,765
14▼ 2photonClosedLuma AI1,037±4127,969
15▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±3287,567
16▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,015±372,113
17▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle976±3258,655
18▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI969±4240,470

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 “—”.