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1209 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 17, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,184Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,195Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #11 overall1,184
2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #18 overall1,160
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #20 overall1,158
This week's changes
HiDream-O1-ImageImage · #31New
JT-35B-FlashIntelligence · #67New
granite-4.1-8bCoding · #68New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,338±10
2—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,266±10
3—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,264±10
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,221±10
5—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,195±9
6—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,185±9
7—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,180±9
8—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,171±9
9—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,169±9
10—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,159±9
11—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,148±9
12—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,138±9
13—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,124±9
14—Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,112±9
15—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,111±9
16—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,110±9
17—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,100±9
18—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,089±9
19—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,085±9
20▲ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,081±9
21▼ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,078±9
22—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,076±9
23—Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,069±8
24—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,068±8
25—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,059±8
26—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,052±8
27—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft1,044±9
28▲ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,034±9
29▲ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,029±9
30▼ 2Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,029±9
31—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,020±9
32—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,019±9
33—Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,013±12
34—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,012±9
35—Krea 1ClosedKrea1,011±9
36—Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,006±9
37—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai995±9
38—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway977±9
39—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle962±12
40—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI960±9
41—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI952±9
42—Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA942±10
43—Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe937±9
44—Grok 2ClosedxAI931±14
45—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon908±9
46—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon899±9
47—DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI742±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 “—”.