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Week of March 23, 2026
May 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 changesMarch 2, 202663 changesFebruary 23, 202613 changesFebruary 16, 202616 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated March 25, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,266Score
Best open model
FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal1,165Score
Best from China
Seedream 4.0ByteDance Seed1,186Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 1.5 (high)OpenAI1,266
2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Google1,258
3Riverflow 2.0Sourceful1,255
Top three open models
1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #14 overall1,165
2Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #16 overall1,151
3FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #18 overall1,149
This week's changes
MiniMax-M2.7Intelligence · #9New
MiMo-V2-ProIntelligence · #10New
GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)Intelligence · #14New
GLM-5-TurboIntelligence · #17New
GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh)Intelligence · #22New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,266±11
2—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,258±10
3—Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,255±11
4—Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,214±11
5—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,200±12
6▲ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,186±7
7▼ 1FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,182±12
8—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,180±12
9—Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,175±12
10▲ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,172±9
11▲ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,171±8
12▲ 1Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,170±12
13▼ 3Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,169±11
14—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,165±12
15—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,164±7
16—Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,151±12
17▲ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,150±10
18▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,149±13
19▼ 1Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,149±12
20▼ 2ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,148±8
21—FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,138±12
22▲ 3grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,137±8
23—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,135±16
24—FLUX.2 [klein] 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,135±10
25▼ 3Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,134±9
26▲ 4Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,132±9
27▼ 1GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,128±11
28▼ 1Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,126±11
29▼ 1Kolors 2.1ClosedKlingAI1,125±12
30NewSeedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance1,125±12
31▼ 2HunyuanImage 3.0 (Fal)OpenTencent1,121±11
32▲ 2Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,121±9
33▼ 1Z-Image TurboOpenAlibaba1,115±10
34▼ 3FLUX.1 Kontext [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,115±9
35▼ 2Vidu Q2ClosedVidu1,114±9
36▼ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,111±11
37▲ 1Eigen ImageClosedEigen AI1,107±9
38▼ 1Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,106±11
39—Vivago 2.0ClosedHiDream1,104±12
40▼ 4HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal)OpenTencent1,104±9
41▼ 1Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,103±11
42▼ 1Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,096±12
43▼ 1Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,093±13
44▼ 1FLUX1.1 [pro] UltraClosedBlack Forest Labs1,090±12
45▼ 1Imagen 4 Fast Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,082±11
46▼ 1FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,082±12
47▼ 1Dreamina 3.1ClosedByteDance1,080±11
48—FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9BOpenBlack Forest Labs1,077±10
49▼ 2Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,077±14
50▼ 1FLUX1.1 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,075±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 “—”.