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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 · Updated October 26, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222Score
Best open model
FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs1,043Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance Seed1,100Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,222
2GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,207
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,186
Top three open models
1FLUX 3 Image KleinBlack Forest Labs · #21 overall1,043
2Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba · #22 overall1,042
3Fibo 2.0Bria · #23 overall1,039
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
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,222±10
2—GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,207±10
3—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,186±11
4—Nano Banana 2.1ClosedGoogle1,176±12
5—MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,166±12
6—Grok Imagine Image 2.0ClosedSpaceXAI1,166±12
7—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,140±10
8—Muse ImageClosedMeta1,127±11
9—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,123±11
10—MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,119±12
11—MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,118±11
11▲ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,118±10
13—FLUX 3 ImageClosedBlack Forest Labs1,117±12
14—MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,114±10
15—Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,107±10
16—Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,100±11
17—Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,095±12
18—Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,070±12
19—Qwen-Image-2.1-ProClosedAlibaba1,056±12
20—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,049±9
21NewFLUX 3 Image KleinOpenBlack Forest Labs1,043±12
22▼ 1Qwen-Image-2.1OpenAlibaba1,042±12
23NewFibo 2.0OpenBria1,039±12
24▼ 2Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,034±9
25▼ 2Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,030±11
26▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,029±11
27▼ 3Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboClosedAlibaba1,029±12
28▼ 2Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,027±12
29▼ 2Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,026±11
30▼ 2Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,026±12
31▼ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,026±11
32▼ 3Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,026±10
33▼ 2Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,023±12
34▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,022±11
35▼ 2FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,021±10
36▼ 2Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,020±11
37▼ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,017±9
38▼ 3HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,017±11
39▼ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,017±12
40▼ 2Ideogram 4.5 (High)ClosedIdeogram1,015±15
41▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,014±12
42▼ 2GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,013±12
43▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,012±9
44▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,003±10
45▼ 2Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram1,002±10
46▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
47▼ 2Ming-Image-0.1-DesignOpenInclusionAI999±9
48▼ 2P-Image-Ideogram (High)ClosedPruna AI995±14
49▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal994±11
50▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA993±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 “—”.