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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated October 12, 2026

Best images
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,036Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,087Score
Top three by Score
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,172
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,036
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #39 overall1,012
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #43 overall1,000
This week's changes
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)Coding · #1New
Eleven v4 TurboSpeech · #1New
GPT-6 Astra (Max)Coding · #2New
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)Coding · #4New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,198±9
2—GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,191±9
3—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,172±8
4NewNano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,160±10
5▼ 1MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,151±9
6▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,125±7
7▼ 1Muse ImageClosedMeta1,114±9
8▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,108±8
9▼ 1MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,107±9
10▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,103±8
11▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,102±8
12▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±7
13▼ 1Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,096±8
14▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,032±9
15▼ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,026±7
16▼ 1Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,023±8
17▼ 1Ideogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,016±11
18▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,013±7
19▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,012±7
20▼ 1GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,012±9
21▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,010±9
22▼ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle998±10
23▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant995±8
24▼ 1MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI990±10
25▼ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle984±9
26▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA972±8
27▼ 1GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI920±7
28▼ 1Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle916±9
29▼ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai913±7
30▼ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve913±9
31▼ 1Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle911±10
32▼ 1Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai901±7
33▼ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram897±7
34▼ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle884±10
35▼ 1Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram884±8
36▼ 1Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney879±10
37▼ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney875±8
38▼ 1Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram871±8
39▼ 1MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft AI865±9
40▼ 1Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney848±8
41▼ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram845±8
42▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai843±9
43▼ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai835±7
44▼ 1Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram833±9
45▼ 1Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai824±7
46▼ 1Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram820±10
47▼ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea820±9
48▼ 1Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway792±9
49▼ 1DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI777±8
50▼ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI775±8

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 “—”.