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Week of August 31, 2026
October 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 4, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,382Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,258Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google843,075Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,382
2mai-image-2.6Microsoft AI1,332
3grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)xAI1,315
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #15 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #22 overall1,168
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #28 overall1,151
This week's changes
gpt-6-astra-maxCoding · #1New
Wan 3.0Video · #1New
claude-fable-5.1-maxCoding · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6-PreviewImage · #2New
GLM-5.3-FlashIntelligence · #9New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,382±477,830
2Newmai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,332±710,086
3Newgrok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)ClosedxAI1,315±122,682
4▼ 2reve-2.1ClosedReve1,301±87,576
5▼ 2muse-imageClosedMeta1,279±624,856
6▼ 2reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,636
7▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,261±540,649
8▼ 1seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,258±459,484
9▼ 3qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,923
10▼ 2mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±457,295
11▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±616,389
12▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3150,932
13▼ 2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3150,845
14▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,744
15▼ 1ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,204±440,898
16▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,016
17▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,477
18▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±549,204
19—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,182±533,847
20—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±3234,986
21—recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,517
22▼ 4Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,168±86,667
23▼ 1flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,355
24▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,649
25—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3149,317
26—flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,154±3186,907
27—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,781
28▼ 4Cosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA1,153±711,322
29▼ 1hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,129
30▼ 1gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2843,075
31▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,120
32▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3257,160
33▼ 1flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±473,979
34▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
35▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3108,001
36▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3199,498
37▼ 1recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,682
38▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3531,853
39▼ 1qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba1,125±492,570
40▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,123±538,977
41—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3246,875
42▼ 2hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,117±447,012
43▼ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
44▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,914
45▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,114±3112,980
46▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,382
47▼ 1krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,110±531,944
48▼ 1gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3163,859
49▼ 1krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,108±538,398
50▼ 1wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,733

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 “—”.