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1203 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 10, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,164Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,201Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #18 overall1,164
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #19 overall1,163
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #23 overall1,158
This week's changes
StepAudio 2.5 TTSSpeech · #3New
Bach-1.0 PreviewVideo · #7New
SIMBA 3.0Speech · #7New
qwen3.6-max-previewCoding · #9New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,337±10
2—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,270±10
3—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,262±10
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,220±10
5—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,199±9
6—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,187±9
7—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,182±9
8—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,174±10
9—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,170±9
10—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,159±9
11—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,152±9
12—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,137±9
13—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,124±9
14—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,116±9
15—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,116±9
16—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,113±9
17—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,099±9
18—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,091±9
19—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,088±9
20—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,083±9
21—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,082±9
22—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,079±9
23▲ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,072±8
24▼ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,071±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±9
29—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,035±9
30—Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,032±9
31▲ 1Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,023±10
32▼ 1Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,022±10
33▲ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,015±12
34▼ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,015±9
35▲ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,013±9
36▼ 1Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,010±9
37—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai996±9
38—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway979±10
39—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle965±12
40—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI958±9
41—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI952±9
42—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
43—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe940±9
44—Grok 2ClosedxAI933±13
45—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon908±9
46—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon900±9
47—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI744±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 “—”.