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Week of April 20, 2026
June 1, 202622 changesMay 25, 202617 changesMay 18, 202616 changesMay 11, 202665 changesMay 4, 202616 changesApril 27, 202624 changesApril 20, 202627 changesApril 13, 202637 changesApril 6, 202641 changesMarch 30, 2026230 changesMarch 23, 202626 changesMarch 16, 202622 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published April 23, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,507Score
Best open model
hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent1,151Score
Best from China
qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22Alibaba1,167Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google757,256Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,507
2gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]Google1,271
3gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)Google1,244
Top three open models
1hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #15 overall1,151
2flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #16 overall1,149
3qwen-image-2512Alibaba · #20 overall1,133
This week's changes
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)Intelligence · #1New
GPT Image 2 (high)Image · #1New
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxSpeech · #1New
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #2New
kimi-k2.6Coding · #4New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1Newgpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,507±915,391
2▼ 1gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,271±555,988
3—gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,244±494,356
4▼ 2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,242±499,255
5▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,657
6▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±533,666
7▼ 1reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,177±67,807
8▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,170±4133,627
9Newqwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22ClosedAlibaba1,167±85,122
10▼ 2flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,165±497,415
11▼ 2grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,158±481,749
12▼ 2flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3132,390
13▼ 2flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±4128,862
14▼ 2gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,152±3757,256
15▼ 2hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3172,985
16▼ 2flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,149±554,558
17▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4389,661
18▼ 2seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,142±3165,241
19▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,627
20▼ 1qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,133±461,000
21▼ 3wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,132±4118,991
22▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,130±3501,132
23—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3176,094
24▼ 3seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,117±454,186
25Newqwen-image-2.0-2026-03-03ClosedAlibaba1,117±538,447
26▼ 4seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±611,863
27▼ 3gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,541
28▼ 3seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,112±3154,144
29▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,109±553,540
30▼ 3gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,105±3142,957
31▼ 5wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,104±528,141
32▼ 3wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,099±528,446
33▼ 3mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,494
34▼ 2z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,083±615,874
35▼ 4seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,925
36▼ 3flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,951
37▼ 3flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,069±3111,598
38▼ 3qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,060±3674,166
39▼ 3flux-1-kontext-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,059±3332,198
40▼ 3imagen-3.0-generate-002ClosedGoogle1,058±3361,420
41▼ 3ideogram-v3-qualityClosedIdeogram1,049±4115,295
42▼ 2p-imageClosed1,036±480,989
43▼ 4photonClosedLuma AI1,035±4127,564
44▼ 3flux-2-klein-4bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,027±3113,383
45▼ 2runway-gen4ClosedRunway1,026±533,299
46▼ 4recraft-v3ClosedRecraft1,021±4192,009
47▼ 3flux-1.1-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,016±370,460
48▼ 3ideogram-v2ClosedIdeogram1,013±372,090
49▼ 3lucid-originClosedLeonardo.Ai1,013±3286,562
50▼ 3glm-imageOpenZ.ai1,011±94,612

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 “—”.