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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published December 16, 2025

Best images
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Best from China
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,152Score
Most voted
qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba654,129Votes
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #8 overall1,152
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #9 overall1,149
3qwen-image-prompt-extendAlibaba · #22 overall1,066
This week's changes
GPT-5.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
gemini-3-flashCoding · #4New
deepseek-v3.2-thinkingCoding · #12New
Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerIntelligence · #31New
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newgpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,264±78,871
2▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,235±713,764
3▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,235±543,546
4Newflux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,168±85,388
5▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±523,330
6▼ 3gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,155±3649,795
7▼ 1flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±427,684
8▼ 3hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,152±497,408
9▼ 2flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,149±710,537
10▼ 2seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±620,022
11▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,144±614,515
12▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,144±4493,974
13▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,133±4494,180
14▼ 2wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,121±540,044
15▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,119±471,743
16▼ 2seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,118±613,456
17▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,117±3251,595
18▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,103±552,802
19▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,091±546,307
20▼ 2seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,084±541,726
21▼ 2flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,078±372,522
22▼ 2qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,066±3654,129
23▼ 2flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,064±3378,888
24▼ 2imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,062±3424,083
25▼ 2qwen-imageOpenAlibaba1,060±2106,422
26▼ 2ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,053±488,819
27▼ 2photonClosedLuma AI1,034±4103,112
28▼ 2recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,024±4154,150
29▼ 2lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,023±3323,598
30▼ 2flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,018±371,781
31▼ 2ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,017±373,285
32▼ 2gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationClosedGoogle986±3305,274
33▼ 2dall-e-3ClosedOpenAI978±4267,433
34▼ 2flux-1-dev-fp8OpenBlack Forest Labs972±449,919
35▼ 2flux-1-kontext-devOpenBlack Forest Labs959±3257,869
36▼ 2stable-diffusion-v35-largeOpenStability AI941±423,764
37▼ 2bagelOpenByteDance912±611,600

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 “—”.