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Week of August 3, 2026
September 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changesJuly 6, 202626 changesJune 29, 202641 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 3, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,219Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,245Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
2Reve 2.1Reve1,299
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,219
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #22 overall1,188
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #27 overall1,176
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #17Up 18
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,339±7
2—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,299±11
3—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,270±9
4▲ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,263±9
5▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,263±7
6▼ 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,262±7
7—Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,254±8
8—HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,245±8
9▲ 1Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,240±9
10▼ 1Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,238±10
11—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,225±7
12—Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,219±8
13—MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,208±9
14—Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,205±8
15—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,204±7
16—Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,201±7
17—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,196±7
18—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,192±7
19▲ 1Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,191±7
20▼ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,190±7
21▲ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,189±7
22▼ 1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream1,188±7
23—Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,188±10
24—FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,187±7
25▲ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,181±7
26▲ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,180±8
27▼ 2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA1,176±10
28▲ 2Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,175±8
29▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,174±8
30▼ 1Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,174±8
31—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,172±8
32▲ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,169±7
33▼ 1ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,169±7
34—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,166±8
35—ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,163±8
36—MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,159±7
37—Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal1,159±10
38—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,158±8
39—Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,157±8
40▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,154±7
41NewIdeogram 4.0ClosedIdeogram1,154±10
42▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,154±8
43—Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,153±8
44▼ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,152±7
45▼ 1Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,150±8
46▼ 1ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,149±7
47▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal1,149±10
48▼ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,147±8
49▼ 1Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,145±8
50▼ 1Ideogram 4.0 FastOpenFal1,143±10

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 “—”.