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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 26, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,170Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,203Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,331
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #16 overall1,170
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #18 overall1,162
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #20 overall1,160
This week's changes
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2 (high)Image · #1New
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
kimi-k2.6Coding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,331±10
2▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,271±10
3▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,263±10
4▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,216±10
5NewMAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,196±10
6▼ 2Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,189±10
7▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,185±10
8▼ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,177±10
9▼ 3Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,171±10
10▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,161±9
11▼ 2grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,151±9
12▼ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,137±9
13▼ 2Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,122±9
14▼ 1Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,117±9
15▼ 3Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,116±9
16▼ 2Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,111±10
17▼ 2Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,098±10
18▼ 2Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,091±9
19▼ 2GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,085±9
20▼ 2Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,082±10
21▼ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,078±10
22▼ 3Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,078±10
23▼ 2Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,072±9
24▼ 2Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,071±8
25▼ 2Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,061±9
26▼ 2Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,054±9
27▼ 2MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft1,046±9
28▼ 1Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,040±10
29▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,034±9
30▼ 4Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,033±9
31▼ 2Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,022±10
32▼ 2Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,021±10
33▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,019±12
34▼ 3Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,017±9
35▼ 2Krea 1ClosedKrea1,009±9
36▼ 2Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,009±9
37▼ 2Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai995±9
38▼ 2Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway982±10
39▼ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI958±9
40▼ 3Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle957±13
41▼ 2DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI953±9
42▼ 2Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
43▼ 2Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe937±9
44▼ 2Grok 2ClosedxAI934±14
45▼ 2Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon906±9
46▼ 2Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon898±9
47▼ 2DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI739±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

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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.