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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 19, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,275Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,167Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,202Score
Top three by Score
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,262
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #15 overall1,167
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,161
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #18 overall1,158
This week's changes
claude-opus-4-7Coding · #1New
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
ImagineArt 2.0Image · #11New
AsyncFlow V2, asyncSpeech · #32New
Lightning v3.1Speech · #46New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,275±10
2—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,264±11
3—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,214±10
4—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,185±10
5—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,185±10
6—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,174±10
7—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,173±10
8—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,159±9
9—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,147±10
10—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,139±10
11—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,121±9
12—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,117±9
13—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,114±9
14—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,109±10
15—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,097±10
16—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,092±9
17▲ 1GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,087±9
18▼ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,082±10
19—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,076±10
20—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,073±10
21—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,071±8
22—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,068±8
23—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,060±9
24—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,051±9
25—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft Azure1,040±9
26▲ 2Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,032±9
27▼ 1Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,032±10
28▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,030±9
29—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,017±10
30▲ 1Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,016±10
31▼ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,014±9
32—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,011±12
33—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,009±9
34—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,008±9
35—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai992±9
36—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway980±10
37▲ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle961±13
38▼ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI959±9
39—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI952±9
40—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA940±10
41—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe939±9
42—Grok 2ClosedxAI912±15
43—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon907±9
44—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon897±9
45—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI736±11

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 “—”.