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

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

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,163Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,201Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,336
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #17 overall1,163
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #19 overall1,160
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #20 overall1,159
This week's changes
Grok 4.3Intelligence · #8New
mimo-v2.5-proCoding · #9New
gpt-5.5 (codex-harness)Coding · #15New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,336±10
2—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,272±10
3—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,261±10
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,217±10
5—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,196±10
6—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,186±10
7—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,181±9
8—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,174±10
9—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,170±9
10—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,161±9
11—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,149±9
12—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,136±9
13—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,123±9
14—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,116±9
15—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,116±9
16—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,112±10
17—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,097±9
18—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,089±9
19—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,085±9
20—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,081±10
21—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,080±10
22—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,077±10
23—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,072±8
24—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,071±8
25—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,062±8
26—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,054±8
27—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft1,044±9
28—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,036±10
29▲ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,035±9
30▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,033±9
31—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,022±10
32—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,021±10
33▲ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,016±9
34▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,015±12
35▲ 1Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,011±9
36▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,010±9
37—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai996±9
38—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway979±10
39▲ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle964±12
40▼ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI958±9
41—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI952±9
42—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
43—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe939±9
44—Grok 2ClosedxAI932±14
45—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon907±9
46—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon898±9
47—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI740±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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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 “—”.