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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 18, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall998
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,188±11
2NewGPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,182±11
3▼ 2GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,171±9
4▼ 2MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,147±11
5▼ 2Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,129±9
6▼ 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,122±8
7▼ 2Muse ImageClosedMeta1,112±10
8▼ 2GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,102±9
9▼ 2MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,102±9
10▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,100±9
11▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±8
12▼ 4MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±10
13▼ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,091±9
14▼ 2MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,033±9
15▼ 2Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,024±7
16▼ 2Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,018±9
17▼ 2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,012±7
18▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,011±7
19▼ 3MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,008±9
20▼ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,007±9
21—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle997±10
22▼ 3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant992±8
23▼ 1MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI989±10
24▼ 4Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle985±9
25▼ 2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA970±8
26▼ 2Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle915±9
27▲ 2GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI914±7
28▼ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve912±9
29▼ 3Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai912±7
30▼ 5Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle909±10
31▼ 3Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai901±7
32▼ 2Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram899±8
33▼ 2Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle883±10
34▼ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram882±8
35▼ 3Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney877±10
36▼ 2Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney874±8
37▼ 2Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram870±8
38▼ 2MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft AI864±9
39▼ 2Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney847±8
40▼ 2Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram844±8
41▼ 2Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai842±9
42—Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai833±7
43▼ 3Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram832±10
44—Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai823±8
45▼ 4Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram819±10
46▼ 3Krea 1ClosedKrea818±9
47▼ 2Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway791±9
48▼ 2DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI776±8
49▼ 2DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI774±8
50▼ 2Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA754±10

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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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.