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Week of June 1, 2026
July 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changesJune 22, 202612 changesJune 15, 2026184 changesJune 8, 202624 changesJune 1, 202622 changesMay 25, 202617 changesMay 18, 202616 changesMay 11, 202665 changesMay 4, 202616 changesApril 27, 202624 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published June 5, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,385Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22Alibaba1,169Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google784,087Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,385
2reve-2.0Reve1,273
3gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]Google1,269
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #9 overall1,204
2hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #22 overall1,151
3flux-2-devBlack Forest Labs · #23 overall1,150
This week's changes
Fun-Realtime-TTSSpeech · #1New
claude-opus-4-8-thinkingCoding · #2New
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)Image · #5New
minimax-m3Coding · #6New
Krea 2 MediumImage · #7New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,385±645,100
2Newreve-2.0ClosedReve1,273±94,759
3▼ 1gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,269±475,713
4▼ 1mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±612,100
5▼ 1gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,245±4114,130
6▼ 1gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,241±4118,438
7—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,234±623,800
8▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,570
9Newideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,204±103,479
10▼ 2uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,191±711,932
11▼ 2mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±548,795
12▼ 2uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,175±613,504
13▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,174±3175,360
14▼ 2recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,508
15▼ 2qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22ClosedAlibaba1,169±85,143
16▼ 2flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,163±4115,675
17▼ 2grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,148
18—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3147,443
19▼ 2flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3151,362
20▼ 4reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,153±618,677
21▼ 2gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,152±3784,087
22▼ 2hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3172,744
23▼ 2flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,150±558,707
24▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4387,964
25▼ 2seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,145±3195,445
26▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,604
27▼ 2wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,133±3151,088
28▲ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,131±472,240
29▼ 2recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,673
30▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3519,398
31▼ 5qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,128±473,542
32▼ 2hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,124±79,370
33Newkrea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,121±112,587
34▼ 2wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3199,636
35▼ 4seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±711,850
36▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,719
37▼ 4qwen-image-2.0-2026-03-03ClosedAlibaba1,115±457,997
38▼ 3seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,112±3173,529
39▼ 3recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,111±473,821
40▼ 3gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3162,009
41▼ 3wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,102±528,507
42Newkrea-2-largeClosedKrea1,101±112,600
43▼ 4wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,099±528,863
44▼ 4mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,400
45▼ 3seedream-3ClosedByteDance1,082±536,843
46▼ 5z-image-turboOpenAlibaba1,081±618,648
47▼ 4flux-1-kontext-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,074±365,616
48▼ 4flux-2-klein-9bOpenBlack Forest Labs1,069±3139,916
49NewCosmos3-Super-Text2ImageOpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,062±103,026
50▼ 5qwen-image-prompt-extendOpenAlibaba1,061±3701,992

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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