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1396 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of August 3, 2026
September 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 7, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,206Score
Best from China
qwen-image-3.0-proAlibaba1,258Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google822,940Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,380
2reve-2.1Reve1,302
3muse-imageMeta1,283
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #14 overall1,206
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #18 overall1,181
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #27 overall1,151
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #17Up 18
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,380±569,194
2—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±87,598
3—muse-imageClosedMeta1,283±714,510
4—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,650
5—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,263±527,910
6Newqwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,258±103,735
7▲ 4seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±526,510
8▼ 2mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,256±544,940
9▼ 2gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,251±616,419
10▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3138,756
11▼ 2gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3142,427
12▼ 2gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,835
13▼ 1grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,228±448,786
14▼ 1ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,206±527,891
15▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,026
16▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,491
17▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,182±549,207
18▲ 38Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,181±102,957
19▼ 2uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,180±526,927
20▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,172±3217,461
21▼ 2recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,519
22▼ 2flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,464
23▼ 2grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,711
24▼ 2flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3149,402
25▼ 2flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,155±3175,196
26▼ 2reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,799
27▼ 1hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,366
28▼ 3gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±3822,940
29▼ 2imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4389,010
30▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,146±3234,737
31▼ 3flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±466,740
32▼ 2seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,639
33▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,136±496,040
34▼ 3wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,136±3182,381
35▼ 2recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,682
36▼ 2imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3532,862
37▼ 2qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,126±491,329
38▼ 2krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,122±526,584
39▼ 2hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,118±434,179
40▼ 1wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,117±3230,234
41▼ 3seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,911
42▼ 2gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3265,373
43—recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,113±499,721
44▼ 2seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,579
45▼ 4krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,110±618,650
46▼ 2gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3164,065
47▼ 1krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,105±526,191
48▼ 3wan2.7-image-proClosedAlibaba1,103±528,745
49▼ 2wan2.7-imageClosedAlibaba1,100±529,087
50▼ 2mai-image-1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,093±494,700

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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