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1319 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published July 2, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,386Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,207Score
Best from China
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #10 overall1,207
2hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #22 overall1,151
3flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #24 overall1,148
This week's changes
Reve 2.0Image · #2New
claude-sonnet-5-thinkingCoding · #5New
Fish Audio S2.1 ProSpeech · #15New
OpenAudio S1 MiniSpeech · #50New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,386±557,380
2—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,272±711,486
3—gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,270±488,358
4—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,257±528,760
5Newgemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±96,167
6▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,245±4126,398
7▼ 1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,241±3130,444
8▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,562
9▼ 1grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,229±536,320
10▼ 1ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,207±615,512
11▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,459
12▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±549,031
13▼ 1uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,179±518,572
14▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,174±3201,524
15▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,415
16▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±429,090
17▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,151±3802,974
18▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4387,970
19▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3531,321
20▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,119±614,533
21▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,690
22Newkrea-2-turboOpenKrea1,112±86,006
23▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3163,450
24▼ 2krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,099±614,290
25▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,375
26▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,160
27▼ 2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,057±615,689
28▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,130
29▼ 2photonClosedLuma AI1,036±4127,392
30▼ 2runway-gen4ClosedRunway1,025±551,596
31▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,014±3285,470
32▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,013±472,090
33▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle975±3257,062
34▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI968±4239,251

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

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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.