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896 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published November 9, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,429Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,227Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Top three by Score
3GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,400
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #20 overall1,227
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #21 overall1,199
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #28 overall1,164
This week's changes
Simba 3.5Speech · #5New
Bach 1.0 ProVideo · #7New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstClosedOpenAI1,429±557,928
2—GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,406±132,718
3—GPT-Image-2.5 FlareClosedOpenAI1,400±557,020
4—GPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±132,551
5—GPT-Image-2 (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±4106,021
6—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,329±538,700
7—Gemini Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,328±94,966
8—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedxAI1,319±79,959
9—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,909
10—Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (20260801)ClosedxAI1,288±532,600
11—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,268±615,323
12—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,266±557,330
13—Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search)ClosedGoogle1,256±477,579
14—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,254±710,915
15—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±459,127
16—Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,249±617,149
17—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,249±4107,413
18—Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K)ClosedGoogle1,246±3185,022
19—GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity)ClosedOpenAI1,236±3169,495
20—Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,231±583,834
21—Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,227±617,883
22—Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,199±477,406
23—Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22)ClosedAlibaba1,190±612,670
24—UNI-1.1 MaxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,748
25—MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±550,455
26—UNI-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±458,725
27—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,169±112,565
28—Grok Imagine ImageClosedxAI1,168±3287,761
29—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,164±710,160
30—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,161±4120,498
31—Grok Imagine Image ProClosedxAI1,160±497,014
32—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3153,015
33—Reve v1.5ClosedReve1,154±438,512
34—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3219,196
35—HunyuanImage 3.0OpenTencent1,152±3175,293
36—Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA1,150±617,450
37—Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,149±2894,571
38—Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance1,148±3312,425
39—Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,146±4385,852
40—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,145±475,695
41—Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,141±3143,894
42—Wan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,138±3248,684
43—Seedream 4.0 (2K)ClosedByteDance1,138±712,274
44—Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,132±112,745
45—Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,128±474,643
46—Imagen 4 (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,128±3533,366
47—Qwen-Image (2512)OpenAlibaba1,124±395,381
48—Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,117±3284,183
49—Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,116±3152,609
50—Seedream 4.0 (fal)ClosedByteDance1,116±711,708

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 “—”.