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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated March 3, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,268Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,166Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,188Score
Top three by Score
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,252
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #14 overall1,166
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,151
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #17 overall1,151
This week's changes
GPT-5.4 (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
Step 3.5 FlashIntelligence · #35New
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewIntelligence · #46New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,268—
2—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,263—
3—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,221—
4—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,176—
5—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,174—
6—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,172—
7—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,170—
8—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,165—
9—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,133—
10—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,129—
11—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,111—
12—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,107—
13—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,101—
14—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,096—
15—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,092—
16—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,085—
17—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,078—
18—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,071—
19—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,070—
20—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,065—
21—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,056—
22—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,047—
23—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,042—
24—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,041—
25—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,037—
26—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,026—
27—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,020—
28—Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,018—
29—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,012—
30—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,011—
31—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,010—
32—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,003—
33—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,000—
34—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe998—
35—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai980—
36—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway968—
37—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI951—
38—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle947—
39—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI937—
40—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA936—
41—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe934—
42—Grok 2ClosedxAI917—
43—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon908—
44—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon890—
45—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI718—

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 “—”.