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Week of April 13, 2026
May 25, 202617 changesMay 18, 202616 changesMay 11, 202665 changesMay 4, 202616 changesApril 27, 202624 changesApril 20, 202627 changesApril 13, 202637 changesApril 6, 202641 changesMarch 30, 2026230 changesMarch 23, 202626 changesMarch 16, 202622 changesMarch 9, 202665 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated April 19, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,275Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,167Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,202Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,275
2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,264
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,262
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #15 overall1,167
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,161
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #18 overall1,158
This week's changes
claude-opus-4-7Coding · #1New
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSSpeech · #2New
ImagineArt 2.0Image · #11New
AsyncFlow V2, asyncSpeech · #32New
Lightning v3.1Speech · #46New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,275±10
2—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,264±11
3—Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,262±10
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,214±10
5—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,206±10
6—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,202±9
7▲ 2Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,185±10
8▲ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,185±10
9▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,184±10
10▼ 2FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,184±10
11NewImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,178±10
12—Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,174±10
13—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,173±10
14▼ 3Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,169±9
15—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,167±10
16—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,161±10
17▼ 3Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,159±9
18▲ 2FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,158±10
19—ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,155±9
20▼ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,155±9
21▼ 3Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,147±10
22▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,147±10
23▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,144±10
24▲ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,140±9
25▲ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,139±10
26▼ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,137±11
27▼ 4FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,137±9
28▲ 1Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,135±9
29▼ 3Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,135±10
30▼ 2Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,133±10
31—HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,133±9
32▲ 1FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,128±9
33▼ 1Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,128±10
34▼ 4Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,125±10
35▲ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,121±9
36▲ 2Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,117±9
37▼ 2Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,115±9
38▲ 3Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,114±9
39▼ 5Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,113±9
40▼ 1Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,110±9
41▲ 1Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,109±10
42▼ 5Eigen ImageClosedEigen AI1,108±9
43▼ 3HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,106±10
44—FLUX1.1 [pro] UltraClosedBlack Forest Labs1,102±9
45▼ 2Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,097±10
46▼ 1Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,092±9
47▲ 1FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,090±9
48▲ 4GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,087±9
49▼ 2Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,087±9
50▼ 4FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,086±9

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

Arena data comes from the leaderboard dataset it publishes on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Only each board's overall leaderboard is used; scores and ranks are unchanged. dataset · CC BY 4.0

Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.