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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 12, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,265Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,163Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,185Score
Top three by Score
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,254
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #15 overall1,163
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,150
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #20 overall1,148
This week's changes
HappyHorse-1.0Video · #1New
glm-5.1Coding · #2New
Eleven v3Speech · #2New
Speech 2.8 HDSpeech · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,265±11
2—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,258±9
3—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,215±11
4—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,174±11
5—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,172±8
6—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,170±12
7—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,170±11
8—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,163±7
9—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,138±8
10—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,128±11
11—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,111±11
12—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,106±11
13—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,103±10
14—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,097±11
15—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,090±13
16—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,082±11
17—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,076±13
18—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,071±11
19—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,066±13
20—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,065±11
21—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,057±8
22—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,047±6
23—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,043±8
24—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,041±7
25—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,030±9
26—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,027±11
27▲ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,020±12
28▼ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,020±8
29—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,013±13
30—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,012±10
31—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,008±13
32—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,004±14
33—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,001±11
34—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe999±11
35—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai984±12
36—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway971±12
37—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI953±6
38—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle947±20
39—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI938±6
40—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA935±14
41—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe935±7
42—Grok 2ClosedxAI917±25
43—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon909±7
44—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon891±7
45—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI719±7

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 “—”.