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Week of July 6, 2026
August 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changesJune 22, 202612 changesJune 15, 2026184 changesJune 8, 202624 changesJune 1, 202622 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,221Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,263Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,337
2Reve 2.0Reve1,278
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,267
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #9 overall1,221
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #21 overall1,184
3Ideogram 4.0 QualityIdeogram · #29 overall1,166
This week's changes
gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness)Coding · #1New
Simba 3.2Speech · #1New
GPT-5.6 Sol (max)Intelligence · #2New
GPT-5.6 Terra (max)Intelligence · #4New
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Image · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,337±8
2—Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,278±11
3—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,267±10
4—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,263±9
5NewNano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,262±11
6▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,258±8
7▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,252±8
8▼ 1Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,249±9
9▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,221±9
10▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,216±8
11▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,205±10
12▼ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,205±9
13▼ 1grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,199±9
14▼ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,197±9
15▼ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,194±9
16▼ 1FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,190±8
17▼ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,188±8
18—Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,187±9
19▼ 2MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,186±8
20—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,184±8
21▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,184±8
22—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,178±8
23▼ 2Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,176±8
24▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,174±8
25▼ 1Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,173±9
26▼ 1Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,170±9
27▼ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,170±8
28▼ 1ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,167±8
29—Ideogram 4.0 QualityOpenIdeogram1,166±9
30▼ 2ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,163±9
31▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,163±8
32▼ 1ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,161±9
33▼ 1Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,159±8
34▼ 1MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,156±8
35—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,154±8
36▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,153±8
37▲ 1Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,153±8
38▼ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,152±9
39▼ 3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,151±8
40—Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,148±9
41▼ 2ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,147±8
42▲ 1Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,145±9
43▼ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedSpaceXAI1,144±8
44▼ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,144±8
45▼ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,142±8
46▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,135±8
47▼ 2Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,133±8
48—Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,132±8
49▲ 1Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,131±9
50▼ 4Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,131±8

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 “—”.