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Week of September 14, 2026
October 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 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changes
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Artificial AnalysisText-to-image arenaArenaText-to-image arena

Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated September 18, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,012Score
Best from China
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProAlibaba1,088Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)OpenAI1,188
2GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)OpenAI1,182
3GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,171
Top three open models
1Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram · #32 overall1,012
2FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs · #39 overall1,000
3Qwen Image Max 2512Alibaba · #40 overall998
This week's changes
GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)Image · #1New
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)Image · #2New
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)Intelligence · #20New
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1NewGPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)ClosedOpenAI1,188±11
2NewGPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)ClosedOpenAI1,182±11
3▼ 2GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,171±9
4▼ 2MAI-Image-2.6ClosedMicrosoft AI1,147±11
5▼ 2Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,129±9
6▼ 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,122±8
7▼ 2Muse ImageClosedMeta1,112±10
8▼ 2GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,102±9
9▼ 2MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,102±9
10▼ 1Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,100±9
11▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5-ProClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±8
12▼ 4MAI-Image-2.6-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,099±10
13▼ 2Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,091±9
14▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0-ProClosedAlibaba1,088±10
15▼ 2Seedream 5.0 ProClosedByteDance Seed1,078±8
16▼ 2Qwen-Image-3.0ClosedAlibaba1,076±10
17▼ 2grok-imagine-image-qualityClosedSpaceXAI1,043±7
18—MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,033±9
19▼ 3Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (2026-04-22)ClosedAlibaba1,029±9
20—Seedream 4.0ClosedByteDance Seed1,025±10
21▲ 1FLUX.2 [flex]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,025±9
22▲ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,024±7
23▲ 10Wan 2.6 ImageClosedAlibaba1,023±9
24▼ 7HiDream-O1-Image-1.5ClosedHiDream1,022±8
25▼ 6FLUX.2 [max]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,022±8
26▲ 9Seedream 4.5ClosedByteDance Seed1,021±9
27▼ 1Recraft V4.1 UtilityClosedRecraft1,020±9
28▼ 7grok-imagine-imageClosedSpaceXAI1,018±9
29▼ 4Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,018±9
30▼ 3Recraft V4.1 Utility ProClosedRecraft1,017±7
31▼ 2Wan2.6 Text to ImageClosedAlibaba1,013±9
32▼ 4Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)OpenIdeogram · 1 more variant1,012±7
33▼ 9Luma UNI 1 MaxClosedLuma Labs1,012±9
34▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,011±7
35▲ 2Seedream 5.0 LiteClosedByteDance Seed1,010±9
36▼ 6MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,008±9
37▼ 3GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,007±9
38▼ 7FLUX.2 [pro]ClosedBlack Forest Labs1,001±8
39▼ 1FLUX.2 [dev]OpenBlack Forest Labs1,000±0
40▲ 15Qwen Image Max 2512OpenAlibaba998±10
41—FLUX.2 [dev] TurboOpenFal998±9
42▲ 4Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle997±10
43▼ 7P-Image-Ideogram (High)ClosedPruna AI · 3 more variants997±11
44▼ 2Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (agentic)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant992±8
45▲ 3MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI989±10
46▼ 7Luma UNI 1ClosedLuma Labs989±9
47▼ 7Recraft V4.1ClosedRecraft988±9
48▲ 7Wan 2.7ClosedAlibaba987±9
49▼ 4Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle985±9
50▼ 7Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)OpenFal · 1 more variant984±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 “—”.