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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 31, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,338Score
Best open model
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream1,191Score
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 · #12 overall1,191
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #23 overall1,161
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #25 overall1,158
This week's changes
qwen3.7-max-20260517Coding · #3New
xAI Text to SpeechSpeech · #5New
Fun-Realtime-TTS-PreviewSpeech · #6New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,338±9
2—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,268±10
3—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,261±10
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,219±9
5—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,203±10
6—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft1,194±9
7—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,184±9
8—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,179±9
9—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,170±9
10—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,166±9
11—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,159±9
12—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,150±9
13—GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,135±9
14—Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,122±9
15▲ 1Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,111±9
16▼ 1Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,110±9
17—Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,106±9
18—Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,096±9
19—Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,087±9
20—GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,086±9
21—Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,079±9
22—Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,078±9
23—Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,072±9
24▲ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,068±8
25▼ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,068±8
26—Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,056±8
27—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,050±8
28—MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft1,045±9
29—Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,032±8
30—Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,030±9
31—Firefly Image 5 PreviewClosedAdobe1,024±9
32—Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,018±9
33—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,017±9
34▲ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±9
35▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash PreviewClosedGoogle1,011±12
36▲ 1Firefly Image 4ClosedAdobe1,007±9
37▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,007±9
38—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai993±9
39—Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway976±9
40—Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalClosedGoogle961±13
41—DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI958±8
42—DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI949±9
43▲ 1Firefly Image 3ClosedAdobe935±9
44▼ 1Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA933±10
45—Grok 2ClosedxAI927±14
46—Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon908±9
47—Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon899±9
48—DALLE 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

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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 “—”.