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Week of July 27, 2026
September 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 changesJune 22, 202612 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated July 29, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340Score
Best open model
Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA1,218Score
Best from China
HiDream-O1-Image-1.5HiDream1,246Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,340
2Reve 2.1Reve1,299
3MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft AI1,270
Top three open models
1Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)NVIDIA · #12 overall1,218
2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #21 overall1,190
3Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepNVIDIA · #25 overall1,182
This week's changes
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #1New
claude-opus-5-maxCoding · #1New
Reve 2.1Image · #2New
MiniMax H3Video · #2New
qwen3.8-maxCoding · #4New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,340±7
2NewReve 2.1ClosedReve1,299±11
3▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,270±9
4▲ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,263±7
4▲ 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,263±7
6▼ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,263±9
7—Riverflow 2.0ClosedSourceful1,253±8
8▼ 5HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,246±8
9▼ 1Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,241±10
10NewSeedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance1,240±9
11▼ 2Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,226±7
12▼ 2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA1,218±8
13▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,208±9
14—Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,205±8
15▼ 2grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,204±7
16▼ 5Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,201±7
17▼ 1FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,197±7
18▼ 1Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,192±7
19▼ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,190±7
20▼ 5Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,190±7
21▼ 2HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604OpenHiDream · 1 more variant1,190±7
22▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,189±7
23NewKrea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,186±10
24▼ 4FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,186±7
25NewCosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA1,182±10
26▼ 2grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,182±7
27▼ 4FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,181±8
28NewIdeogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram1,175±8
29▼ 4Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,174±8
30▼ 4Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,174±8
31▼ 4Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,172±8
32▼ 3ImagineArt 2.0ClosedImagineArt1,169±7
33▼ 3Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,169±7
34▼ 3ERNIE ImageOpenBaidu1,167±8
35▼ 3ERNIE Image TurboOpenBaidu1,163±8
36▼ 2MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,159±7
37NewIdeogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal · 1 more variant1,158±10
38▼ 3Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba1,158±8
39▼ 1Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft1,157±8
40▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal1,155±8
41▼ 4FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,154±7
42▼ 6Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,153±7
43▼ 3Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,153±8
44▼ 2Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,151±8
45▼ 4ImagineArt 1.5 PreviewClosedImagineArt1,148±7
46NewIdeogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal1,148±10
47▼ 3Wan 2.5 PreviewClosedAlibaba1,146±8
48▼ 3Seedream 3.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,145±8
49▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,140±7
50▼ 2Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft1,139±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 “—”.