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Week of September 7, 2026
October 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 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 9, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,178Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0Ideogram1,017Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,086Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,178
2MAI-Image-2.6Microsoft AI1,149
3Reve 2.1Reve1,127
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0Ideogram · #28 overall1,017
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #38 overall1,000
3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #41 overall999
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
GPT-6 Astra (max)Intelligence · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6Image · #2New
Realtime TTS-2Speech · #2New
Muse Spark 1.3 (max)Intelligence · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,178±10
2NewMAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,149±12
3—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,127±9
4—Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,121±9
5NewMuse ImageClosedMeta1,116±11
6▼ 1GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,114±9
7▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,112±9
8NewMAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±10
9▼ 2Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,099±9
10▼ 2MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,096±9
11▼ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,089±9
12▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,086±11
13▼ 2Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,083±9
14▼ 1Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,078±11
15—grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,034±8
16—Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,032±10
17▲ 1HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,032±9
18▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,031±10
19—FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,031±9
20—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,029±11
21▲ 5grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,027±10
22—FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,026±10
23▲ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,024±8
24▼ 3Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,024±10
25▲ 5Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,023±10
26▲ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,018±9
27▼ 2Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,018±8
28▼ 5Ideogram 4.0OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,017±9
29▲ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,012±10
30▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,011±8
31▲ 1FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,011±9
32▼ 4Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,011±8
33—Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,010±10
34▲ 1GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,007±10
35▼ 1Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,006±10
36▲ 1P-Image-Ideogram (High)ClosedPruna AI · 3 more variants1,002±11
37▲ 4Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,000±10
38▲ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
39▼ 3Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs1,000±10
40▲ 2Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft1,000±10
41▼ 3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal999±10
42▲ 4Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant995±9
43▼ 3Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal · 1 more variant992±10
44▼ 1Recraft V4 ProClosedRecraft991±10
45—Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle991±10
46▼ 2Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle990±8
47▲ 1Ideogram 4.0 InstantOpenFal987±10
48▲ 1MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI984±8
49▼ 2Recraft V4.1 ProClosedRecraft983±10
50—Wan 2.7 ProClosedAlibaba983±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

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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.