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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 24, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,187Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,196Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #12 overall1,187
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #22 overall1,159
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #23 overall1,159
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,339±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)ClosedGoogle1,220±10
5Newgrok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,210±11
6▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,197±9
7▼ 1Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,185±9
8▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,181±9
9▼ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,171±9
10▼ 1Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,168±9
11▼ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,160±9
12▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,150±9
13▼ 1GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,139±9
14▼ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,123±9
15—Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,113±9
16▼ 2Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,113±9
17▼ 1Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,110±9
18▼ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,099±9
19▼ 1Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,089±9
20▼ 1GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,085±9
21▼ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,080±9
22▼ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,079±9
23▼ 1Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,076±9
24▼ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,070±8
25▼ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,069±8
26▼ 1Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,060±8
27▼ 1Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,054±8
28▼ 1MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft1,042±9
29▼ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,034±8
30▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,030±9
31▼ 1Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,029±9
32▼ 1Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,020±9
33▼ 1Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,020±9
34▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,013±12
35▼ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±9
36▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,009±9
37▼ 1Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,007±9
38▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai993±9
39▼ 1Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway978±9
40▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle963±12
41▼ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI959±9
42▼ 1DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI951±9
43▼ 1Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA941±10
44▼ 1Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe938±9
45▼ 1Grok 2ClosedxAI931±14
46▼ 1Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon907±9
47▼ 1Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon900±9
48▼ 1DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI741±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 “—”.