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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated January 14, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,246Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,157Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,185Score
Top three by Score
3FLUX.2 [max]Black Forest Labs1,207
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #13 overall1,157
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #15 overall1,143
3FLUX.2 [dev] FlashFal · #20 overall1,125
This week's changes
GPT Image 1.5 (high)Image · #1New
FLUX.2 [max]Image · #3New
Kling O1 ProVideo · #9New
Kling 2.6 Pro (No Audio)Video · #10New
Imagen 4 UltraImage · #12New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,246—
2▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,221—
3▼ 1Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,166—
4▼ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,161—
5NewImagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,157—
6▼ 2Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,154—
7▼ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,124—
8—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,109—
9▼ 2Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,107—
10▼ 1Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,102—
11NewImagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,095—
12▼ 2Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,083—
13▼ 2Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,083—
14▼ 2Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,080—
15▼ 1Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,066—
16NewImagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,063—
17▼ 4GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,062—
18▼ 2Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,045—
19▼ 4Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,044—
20▼ 3Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,038—
21▼ 3Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,030—
22▼ 2Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,027—
23—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,025—
24▼ 3Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,018—
25▼ 3Krea 1ClosedKrea1,017—
26▼ 7Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,016—
27▼ 3Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,008—
28▼ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,008—
29▼ 3Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe999—
30▼ 5Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram999—
31▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle980—
32▼ 4Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway979—
33▼ 4Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai978—
34▼ 3Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle961—
35▼ 3DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI948—
36▲ 1Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA937—
37▼ 4Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe936—
38▼ 3DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI930—
39▼ 5Grok 2ClosedxAI929—
40▼ 4Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon904—
41▼ 3Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon881—
42▼ 3DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI697—

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 “—”.