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1275 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published June 5, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,385Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #9 overall1,204
2hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #22 overall1,151
3flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #23 overall1,150
This week's changes
claude-fable-5Coding · #1New
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5Image · #3New
MAI-Image-2.5 (Foundry)Image · #12New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,385±645,100
2—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,273±94,759
3—gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,269±475,713
4—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±612,100
5—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,245±4114,130
6—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,241±4118,438
7—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,234±623,800
8—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,570
9—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,204±103,479
10—uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,191±711,932
11—mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±548,795
12—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,175±613,504
13—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,174±3175,360
14—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,148
15—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,153±618,677
16—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,152±3784,087
17—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4387,964
18—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3519,398
19—krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,121±112,587
20—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,719
21—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3162,009
22—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,101±112,600
23—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,400
24—Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,062±103,026
25—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,161
26—ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,151
27—photonClosedLuma AI1,036±4127,412
28—runway-gen4ClosedRunway1,025±550,348
29—lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,014±3285,477
30—ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,013±472,090
31—gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle975±3257,054
32—dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI968±4239,261

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 “—”.