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1512 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of September 21, 2026
November 2, 202641 changesOctober 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published September 24, 2026

Best images
gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,424Score
Best open model
qwen-image-2.1Alibaba1,228Score
Best from China
seedream-5.0-proByteDance1,256Score
Most voted
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)Google878,451Votes
Top three by Score
1gpt-image-2.5-sunburstOpenAI1,424
2gpt-image-2.5-flareOpenAI1,401
3gpt-image-2 (medium)OpenAI1,383
Top three open models
1qwen-image-2.1Alibaba · #17 overall1,228
2ideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram · #18 overall1,205
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #25 overall1,165
This week's changes
claude-opus-5.5-maxCoding · #1New
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
Grok Imagine Image 2.0Image · #4New
gpt-6-sol-maxCoding · #5New
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSSpeech · #6New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—gpt-image-2.5-sunburstClosedOpenAI1,424±810,884
2—gpt-image-2.5-flareClosedOpenAI1,401±810,058
3—gpt-image-2 (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,383±488,744
4—mai-image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,335±618,625
5▲ 1reve-2.1ClosedReve1,302±88,305
6▼ 1grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)ClosedxAI1,301±87,257
7—muse-imageClosedMeta1,276±535,422
8—reve-2.0ClosedReve1,269±615,802
9—gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]ClosedGoogle1,261±453,228
10—seedream-5.0-proClosedByteDance1,256±485,690
11—qwen-image-3.0-proClosedAlibaba1,256±611,520
12—mai-image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,254±461,448
13—gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,250±617,851
14—gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,247±3168,447
15—gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityClosedOpenAI1,238±3165,437
16—gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,234±586,451
17Newqwen-image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,228±94,445
18▼ 1ideogram-4.0-qualityOpenIdeogram1,205±453,371
19▼ 1qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22ClosedAlibaba1,192±613,123
20▼ 1uni-1.1-maxClosedLuma AI1,189±614,083
21▼ 1mai-image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,184±551,477
22▼ 1uni-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,183±441,412
23▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,170±3262,132
24▼ 1recraft-v4.1-utility-proClosedRecraft1,169±112,618
25▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,165±710,856
26—grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,162±499,444
27▼ 2flux-2-maxClosedBlack Forest Labs1,162±3123,187
28▼ 1flux-2-flexClosedBlack Forest Labs1,157±3156,912
29—reve-v1.5ClosedReve1,155±439,755
30▼ 2flux-2-proClosedBlack Forest Labs1,154±3205,540
31—gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,150±2878,451
32▼ 2hunyuan-image-3.0OpenTencent1,150±3180,550
33▼ 1imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,148±4388,772
34▼ 1seedream-4.5ClosedByteDance1,147±3287,128
35▼ 1flux-2-devOpenBlack Forest Labs1,146±478,080
36▼ 1seedream-4-2kClosedByteDance1,140±712,566
37▼ 1seedream-5.0-liteClosedByteDance1,138±3123,178
38▼ 1wan2.6-t2iClosedAlibaba1,137±3223,535
39▼ 1recraft-v4.1-proClosedRecraft1,133±102,795
40▼ 1imagen-4.0-generate-001ClosedGoogle1,129±3539,788
41▼ 1qwen-image-2512OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant1,125±398,363
42▼ 1krea-2-mediumClosedKrea1,123±450,800
43▲ 1seedream-4-falClosedByteDance1,117±711,842
44▼ 2wan2.5-t2i-previewClosedAlibaba1,116±3271,922
45▼ 2hidream-o1-imageOpenHiDream1,116±459,511
46▼ 1gpt-image-1ClosedOpenAI1,116±3268,466
47▼ 1recraft-v4ClosedRecraft1,115±3129,674
48▼ 1seedream-4-high-res-falClosedByteDance1,113±3182,669
49▼ 1krea-2-turboOpenKrea1,113±543,913
50—krea-2-largeClosedKrea1,110±449,906

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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