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1055 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published March 6, 2026

Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #12 overall1,152
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #13 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #17 overall1,139
This week's changes
GPT-5.4 (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
Step 3.5 FlashIntelligence · #35New
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewIntelligence · #46New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,268±714,729
2—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,248±555,118
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,236±552,541
4—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,233±583,574
5—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,177±68,013
6—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,175±439,932
7—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,162±439,822
8—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,156±3680,525
9—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4390,079
10—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±3455,020
11—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,597
12—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,104±498,590
13—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,095±486,735
14—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,059±3361,554
15—ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,050±4115,713
16—photonClosedLuma AI1,037±4127,889
17—lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±3287,488
18—ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,014±372,113
19—gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle976±3258,626
20—dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI969±4240,451

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 “—”.