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1432 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 7, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,206Score
Best from China
qwen-image-3.0-proAlibaba1,258Score
Top three by Score
2reve-2.1Reve1,302
3muse-imageMeta1,283
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #14 overall1,206
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #18 overall1,181
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #27 overall1,151
This week's changes
Sonic 3.6Speech · #1New
Grok 4.6 (high)Intelligence · #4New
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BIntelligence · #7New
glm-5.3-maxCoding · #8New
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProImage · #8New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,380±569,194
2—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,598
3—muse-imageClosedMeta1,283±714,510
4—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,650
5—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,263±527,910
6—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,256±544,940
7—gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,251±616,419
8—gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3138,756
9—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3142,427
10—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,835
11—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,228±448,786
12—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,206±527,891
13—uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,491
14—mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,182±549,207
15—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,181±102,957
16—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,180±526,927
17—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,172±3217,461
18—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,711
19—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,799
20—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±3822,940
21—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4389,010
22—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3532,862
23—krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,122±526,584
24—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,373
25—krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,110±618,650
26—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3164,065
27—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,105±526,191
28—mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,700
29—imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3360,739
30—ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,578
31—photonClosedLuma AI1,035±4127,700
32—runway-gen4ClosedRunway1,025±451,775
33—lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±3285,797
34—ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,013±472,090
35—gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle975±3257,623
36—dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI968±4239,491

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 “—”.