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1022 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of October 26, 2026
November 9, 202636 changesNovember 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published October 26, 2026

Best images
GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,427Score
Best open model
Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba1,225Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,254Score
Most voted
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)Google907,282Votes
Top three by Score
1GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstOpenAI1,427
2GPT-Image-2.5 FlareOpenAI1,401
3GPT-Image-2 (Medium)OpenAI1,381
Top three open models
1Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #18 overall1,225
2Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #19 overall1,200
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)NVIDIA · #26 overall1,164
This week's changes
HeyGen Video 1Video · #3New
Kimi K3.1 ProIntelligence · #4New
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)Coding · #4New
GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)Coding · #13New
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashIntelligence · #18New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreVotes
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotes
1—GPT-Image-2.5 SunburstClosedOpenAI1,427±540,323
2—GPT-Image-2.5 FlareClosedOpenAI1,401±539,218
3—GPT-Image-2 (Medium)ClosedOpenAI1,381±4103,385
4▲ 1MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,329±534,596
5▲ 1Gemini Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,325±95,290
6▼ 2Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,317±710,902
7—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,300±88,243
8—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,269±553,444
9—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,268±615,768
10NewGemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search)ClosedGoogle1,257±473,278
11▲ 1Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,254±611,444
12▲ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,253±461,286
13▼ 2Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,250±4105,824
14—Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite)ClosedGoogle1,249±617,813
15▲ 2Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K)ClosedGoogle1,246±3188,288
16NewGPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity)ClosedOpenAI1,236±3174,012
17NewGemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro)ClosedGoogle1,232±586,470
18—Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,225±619,604
19NewIdeogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,200±472,865
20NewQwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22)ClosedAlibaba1,191±613,092
21—UNI-1.1 MaxClosedLuma AI1,189±614,076
22▲ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,183±551,442
23▼ 1UNI-1.1ClosedLuma AI1,183±455,179
24—Grok Imagine ImageClosedxAI1,169±3286,515
25—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,168±112,618
26—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,164±710,803
27▲ 1FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,161±4123,144
28▼ 1Grok Imagine Image ProClosedxAI1,161±499,389
29—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,156±3156,876
30—Reve v1.5ClosedReve1,154±439,704
31—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,153±3223,179
32NewHunyuanImage 3.0OpenTencent1,151±3180,498
33▲ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance1,149±3318,120
34NewGemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana)ClosedGoogle1,149±2907,282
35NewImagen 4 Ultra (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,146±4388,723
36—FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,145±477,975
37▲ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,140±3141,120
38NewSeedream 4.0 (2K)ClosedByteDance · 2 more variants1,139±712,563
39NewWan 2.6ClosedAlibaba1,138±3247,795
40—Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,131±102,796
41NewImagen 4 (generate-001)ClosedGoogle1,128±3539,657
42▲ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,128±469,957
43▼ 1Qwen-Image (2512)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants1,125±398,272
44NewWan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,117±3290,257
45▲ 6Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,115±468,477
46▲ 1GPT-Image-1ClosedOpenAI1,115±3268,430
47▲ 1Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,115±3149,367
48NewHiDream-O1-ImageOpenHiDream1,115±477,624
49▲ 1Krea 2 TurboOpenKrea1,114±463,944
50▲ 2GPT-Image-1 miniClosedOpenAI1,109±3170,993

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 “—”.