MODEL INTELLIGENCE
ModelRank
Compare models within one task and one source. Human preference, benchmark ability, and usage measure different things; their scores are not combined.
Methodology and data notes
Mixed open/closed image-generation ranking.
Metric: Arena rating, higher is better
| Rank | Model | Organization | Arena rating ↑ | 95% CI | Access | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst Arena rating ↑ | openai | 1,427.4 | 1422.0–1432.7 | Proprietary | 40,323 votes Source |
| 2 | GPT-Image-2.5 Flare Arena rating ↑ | openai | 1,401.3 | 1396.0–1406.6 | Proprietary | 39,218 votes Source |
| 3 | GPT-Image-2 (Medium) Arena rating ↑ | openai | 1,381.3 | 1377.4–1385.1 | Proprietary | 103,385 votes Source |
| 4 |  MAI-Image-2.6 Arena rating ↑ | microsoft-ai | 1,328.6 | 1323.3–1334.0 | Proprietary | 34,596 votes Source |
| 5 |  Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 Arena rating ↑ | 1,325.2 | 1316.5–1334.0 | Proprietary | 5,290 votes Source | |
| 6 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Arena rating ↑ | xai | 1,316.6 | 1309.4–1323.7 | Proprietary | 10,902 votes Source |
| 7 | Reve 2.1 Arena rating ↑ | reve | 1,300.1 | 1292.6–1307.6 | Proprietary | 8,243 votes Source |
| 8 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (20260801) Arena rating ↑ | xai | 1,287.9 | 1282.4–1293.4 | Proprietary | 26,191 votes Source |
| 9 | Muse Image Arena rating ↑ | meta | 1,268.8 | 1264.2–1273.4 | Proprietary | 53,444 votes Source |
| 10 | Reve 2.0 Arena rating ↑ | reve | 1,267.6 | 1261.4–1273.8 | Proprietary | 15,768 votes Source |
| 11 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search) Arena rating ↑ | 1,257.0 | 1253.1–1260.9 | Proprietary | 73,278 votes Source | |
| 12 | Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,254.0 | 1247.6–1260.5 | Proprietary | 11,444 votes Source |
| 13 | MAI-Image-2.5 Arena rating ↑ | microsoft-ai | 1,253.0 | 1248.8–1257.2 | Proprietary | 61,286 votes Source |
| 14 |  Seedream 5.0 Pro Arena rating ↑ | bytedance | 1,250.4 | 1246.6–1254.3 | Proprietary | 105,824 votes Source |
| 15 | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite) Arena rating ↑ | 1,249.4 | 1243.5–1255.4 | Proprietary | 17,813 votes Source | |
| 16 | Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K) Arena rating ↑ | 1,246.2 | 1243.2–1249.2 | Proprietary | 188,288 votes Source | |
| 17 | GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity) Arena rating ↑ | openai | 1,236.2 | 1233.2–1239.3 | Proprietary | 174,012 votes Source |
| 18 | Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro) Arena rating ↑ | 1,231.8 | 1226.9–1236.7 | Proprietary | 86,470 votes Source | |
| 19 | Qwen-Image-2.1 Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,225.1 | 1219.1–1231.1 | qwen-research | 19,604 votes Source |
| 20 | Ideogram 4.0 (Quality) Arena rating ↑ | ideogram | 1,199.9 | 1196.1–1203.6 | Ideogram Open Model | 72,865 votes Source |
| 21 | Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,191.5 | 1185.6–1197.3 | Proprietary | 13,092 votes Source |
| 22 | UNI-1.1 Max Arena rating ↑ | luma-ai | 1,188.8 | 1182.6–1194.9 | Proprietary | 14,076 votes Source |
| 23 | MAI-Image-2 Arena rating ↑ | microsoft-ai | 1,183.3 | 1178.8–1187.9 | Proprietary | 51,442 votes Source |
| 24 | UNI-1.1 Arena rating ↑ | luma-ai | 1,182.5 | 1178.4–1186.7 | Proprietary | 55,179 votes Source |
| 25 | Grok Imagine Image Arena rating ↑ | xai | 1,169.3 | 1166.7–1171.9 | Proprietary | 286,515 votes Source |
| 26 | Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro Arena rating ↑ | recraft | 1,168.2 | 1157.3–1179.2 | Proprietary | 2,618 votes Source |
| 27 |  Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Arena rating ↑ | nvidia | 1,164.3 | 1157.2–1171.3 | OpenMDW-1.1 | 10,803 votes Source |
| 28 | FLUX.2 [max] Arena rating ↑ | bfl | 1,161.4 | 1157.9–1164.9 | Proprietary | 123,144 votes Source |
| 29 | Grok Imagine Image Pro Arena rating ↑ | xai | 1,161.2 | 1157.5–1165.0 | Proprietary | 99,389 votes Source |
| 30 | FLUX.2 [flex] Arena rating ↑ | bfl | 1,156.2 | 1152.8–1159.6 | Proprietary | 156,876 votes Source |
| 31 | Reve v1.5 Arena rating ↑ | reve | 1,154.3 | 1150.1–1158.6 | Proprietary | 39,704 votes Source |
| 32 | FLUX.2 [pro] Arena rating ↑ | bfl | 1,152.7 | 1149.9–1155.5 | Proprietary | 223,179 votes Source |
| 33 | HunyuanImage 3.0 Arena rating ↑ | tencent | 1,150.9 | 1147.5–1154.2 | tencent-hunyuan-community | 180,498 votes Source |
| 34 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Arena rating ↑ | nvidia | 1,150.6 | 1144.7–1156.4 | OpenMDW-1.1 | 18,480 votes Source |
| 35 | Seedream 4.5 Arena rating ↑ | bytedance | 1,148.8 | 1146.3–1151.3 | Proprietary | 318,120 votes Source |
| 36 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana) Arena rating ↑ | 1,148.6 | 1146.3–1151.0 | Proprietary | 907,282 votes Source | |
| 37 | Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001) Arena rating ↑ | 1,146.1 | 1141.8–1150.4 | Proprietary | 388,723 votes Source | |
| 38 | FLUX.2 [dev] Arena rating ↑ | bfl | 1,145.2 | 1141.0–1149.3 | flux-non-commercial-license | 77,975 votes Source |
| 39 | Seedream 5.0 Lite Arena rating ↑ | bytedance | 1,139.6 | 1136.5–1142.8 | Proprietary | 141,120 votes Source |
| 40 | Seedream 4.0 (2K) Arena rating ↑ | bytedance | 1,138.5 | 1132.0–1145.1 | Proprietary | 12,563 votes Source |
| 41 | Wan 2.6 Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,138.2 | 1135.4–1141.0 | Proprietary | 247,795 votes Source |
| 42 | Recraft V4.1 Pro Arena rating ↑ | recraft | 1,131.5 | 1121.0–1142.0 | Proprietary | 2,796 votes Source |
| 43 | Imagen 4 (generate-001) Arena rating ↑ | 1,128.3 | 1125.6–1131.1 | Proprietary | 539,657 votes Source | |
| 44 | Krea 2 Medium Arena rating ↑ | krea | 1,128.2 | 1124.3–1132.2 | Proprietary | 69,957 votes Source |
| 45 | Qwen-Image (2512) Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,124.6 | 1121.2–1128.1 | Apache 2.0 | 98,272 votes Source |
| 46 | Wan 2.5 Preview Arena rating ↑ | alibaba | 1,116.7 | 1113.9–1119.4 | Proprietary | 290,257 votes Source |
| 47 | Seedream 4.0 (fal) Arena rating ↑ | bytedance | 1,116.2 | 1109.7–1122.7 | Proprietary | 11,841 votes Source |
| 48 | Krea 2 Large Arena rating ↑ | krea | 1,115.2 | 1111.2–1119.2 | Proprietary | 68,477 votes Source |
| 49 | GPT-Image-1 Arena rating ↑ | openai | 1,115.1 | 1112.0–1118.3 | Proprietary | 268,430 votes Source |
| 50 | Recraft V4 Arena rating ↑ | recraft | 1,114.9 | 1111.7–1118.0 | Proprietary | 149,367 votes Source |