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1319 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

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Week of June 29, 2026
August 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 changesMay 25, 202617 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 5, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,227Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,265Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,339
2Reve 2.0Reve1,280
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,271
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #8 overall1,227
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #19 overall1,187
3ERNIE ImageBaidu · #28 overall1,169
This week's changes
Reve 2.0Image · #2New
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #5New
claude-sonnet-5-thinkingCoding · #5New
Fish Audio S2.1 ProSpeech · #15New
OpenAudio S1 MiniSpeech · #50New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,339±8
2NewReve 2.0ClosedReve1,280±11
3▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,271±10
4▼ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,265±9
5▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,260±9
6▼ 1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,255±8
7▼ 1Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,252±9
8▼ 1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,227±9
9▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,218±8
10▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,213±10
11▼ 1Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,204±9
12—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedxAI1,202±9
13▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,200±9
14▼ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,198±10
15▼ 1FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,193±8
16▼ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,191±8
17▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,190±8
18▼ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,188±9
19—HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,187±8
20▼ 2FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,186±8
21▼ 1Imagen 4 Ultra Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,181±8
22▼ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,179±9
23▼ 1grok-imagine-imageClosedxAI1,177±8
24—Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,174±9
25▼ 2Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,173±9
26—Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,172±8
27▼ 2ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,171±8
28—ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,169±10
29▼ 2Ideogram 4.0 QualityOpenIdeogram1,169±10
30▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,165±8
31▲ 1ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,163±9
32▼ 2Imagen 4 Preview 0606ClosedGoogle1,163±8
33▼ 2MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,158±8
34▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,156±8
35▲ 2Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,156±9
36▼ 3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,156±8
37▼ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,154±9
38▼ 4Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,154±8
39▼ 1ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,150±8
40▲ 1Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,147±9
41▼ 2Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,147±8
42▲ 1grok-imagine-image-proClosedxAI1,147±8
43▼ 3Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,146±9
44▼ 2Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,145±8
45▼ 1Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,138±8
46▲ 2Vivago 2.1ClosedHiDream1,136±8
47▼ 2FLUX.2 [dev] FlashOpenFal1,136±8
48▼ 1Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,134±8
49▼ 3Recraft V4ClosedRecraft1,134±8
50▼ 1Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,133±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 “—”.