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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated February 21, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,265Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,166Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,189Score
Top three by Score
2Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,261
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #14 overall1,166
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #17 overall1,151
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #18 overall1,150
This week's changes
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewIntelligence · #1New
Kling 3.0 ProVideo · #1New
claude-sonnet-4-6Coding · #2New
Veo 3.1Video · #5New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,265—
2—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,222—
3—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,184—
4—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,177—
5—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,175—
6—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,167—
7—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,167—
8—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,147—
9—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,125—
10—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,114—
11—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,105—
12—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,099—
13—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,096—
14—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,093—
15▲ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,085—
16▼ 1Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,084—
17—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,075—
18—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,070—
19—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,065—
20—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,051—
21—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,048—
22—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,044—
23—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,040—
24—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,031—
25—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,028—
26—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,015—
27—Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013—
28—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,007—
29—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,007—
30—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,001—
31—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram999—
32—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe994—
33—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle990—
34—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai986—
35—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway969—
36—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle958—
37—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI948—
38—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI931—
39—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe929—
40—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA924—
41—Grok 2ClosedxAI922—
42—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon904—
43—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon885—
44—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI708—

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 “—”.