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Week of September 14, 2026
October 26, 20269 changesOctober 19, 2026247 changesOctober 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 8, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,421Score
Best open model
ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,204Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,257Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google845,086Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,421
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,399
3gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,381
Top three open models
1ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #17 overall1,204
2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #24 overall1,167
3hunyuan-image-3.0Tencent · #30 overall1,151
This week's changes
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)Image · #2New
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #20New
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2.5-sunburstClosedOpenAI1,421±133,149
2—gpt-image-2.5-flareClosedOpenAI1,399±132,856
3—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,381±478,731
4—mai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,331±711,213
5—grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)ClosedxAI1,315±122,681
6—reve-2.1ClosedReve1,301±87,573
7—muse-imageClosedMeta1,277±626,045
8—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,270±614,632
9—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,261±541,957
10—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,257±462,443
11—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,254±710,920
12—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±457,250
13—gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±616,371
14—gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,246±3152,220
15—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,239±3151,702
16—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±582,737
17—ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,204±442,169
18—qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,191±612,005
19—uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,188±613,469
20—mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±549,198
21—uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,181±533,836
22—grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±3236,623
23—recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,516
24—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,167±87,424
25—flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±4117,339
26—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,161±493,639
27—flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3149,288
28—flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,154±3188,083
29—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,154±436,748
30—hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,151±3173,099
31—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2845,086
32—imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,103
33—seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3259,145
34—flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,145±473,963
35—seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,621
36—seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3109,182
37—wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3201,108
38—recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,130±112,680
39—imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3531,811
40—qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±492,541
41—krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,123±540,205
42—wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,118±3248,411
43—hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,117±448,201
44—seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,116±711,870
45—gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3264,897
46—recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,114±3114,295
47—seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3175,361
48—krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,110±533,237
49—gpt-image-1-miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3163,843
50—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,108±539,614

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 “—”.