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Text-to-Image Arena
Blind preference arena for text-to-image generation quality.
Passport
Visible tradeoffsThis is a human preference signal, so it tells you what people liked side by side, not what is formally correct.
metric
Arena rating (rating)
judge
Human
direction
higher better
group id
arena_text_to_image_2026_q2
domain
Image generation
What it measures vs what it misses
✓ Measures
Observed user preference over generated images from the same text prompt. Relative appeal and usefulness in head-to-head image generation comparisons.
✗ Misses
Objective faithfulness metrics. Detailed category-specific behavior such as typography, anatomy, or commercial design accuracy.
Why this countsIt would matter for text-to-image quality once verified public receipts exist in the catalog.Comparable-group ruleThis percentile only compares models inside the exact benchmark/version group shown here. It is not a universal score.What it missesThis slice is currently limited because the product does not yet carry first-class image-generation receipts.
Leaderboard · this benchmark version
#1 · GPT Image 2 (high)
AR · May 1, 2026
1,507
#2 · gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]
AR · May 1, 2026
1,271
#3 · gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k (nano-banana-pro)
AR · May 1, 2026
1,244
#4 · gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity
AR · May 1, 2026
1,242
#5 · Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
AR · May 1, 2026
1,232
#6 · mai-image-2
AR · May 1, 2026
1,183
#7 · reve-v1.5
AR · May 1, 2026
1,177
#8 · Grok Imagine Image
AR · May 1, 2026
1,170
#9 · qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-04-22
AR · May 1, 2026
1,168
#10 · flux-2-max
AR · May 1, 2026
1,166
#11 · Grok Imagine Image Pro
AR · May 1, 2026
1,158
#12 · flux-2-pro
AR · May 1, 2026
1,157
#13 · flux-2-flex
AR · May 1, 2026
1,156
#14 · gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana)
AR · May 1, 2026
1,152
#15 · hunyuan-image-3.0
AR · May 1, 2026
1,151
#16 · flux-2-dev
AR · May 1, 2026
1,149
#17 · imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001
AR · May 1, 2026
1,148
#18 · seedream-4.5
AR · May 1, 2026
1,142
#19 · seedream-4-2k
AR · May 1, 2026
1,140
#20 · qwen-image-2512
AR · May 1, 2026
1,133
#21 · wan2.6-t2i
AR · May 1, 2026
1,132
#22 · imagen-4.0-generate-001
AR · May 1, 2026
1,130
#23 · wan2.5-t2i-preview
AR · May 1, 2026
1,117
#24 · seedream-5.0-lite
AR · May 1, 2026
1,117
#25 · qwen-image-2.0-2026-03-03
AR · May 1, 2026
1,117
#26 · seedream-4-fal
AR · May 1, 2026
1,116
#27 · GPT Image 1.5
AR · May 1, 2026
1,115
#28 · seedream-4-high-res-fal
AR · May 1, 2026
1,112
#29 · recraft-v4
AR · May 1, 2026
1,109
#30 · GPT Image 1 mini
AR · May 1, 2026
1,105
#31 · wan2.7-image-pro
AR · May 1, 2026
1,104
#32 · wan2.7-image
AR · May 1, 2026
1,099
#33 · mai-image-1
AR · May 1, 2026
1,093
#34 · z-image-turbo
AR · May 1, 2026
1,083
#35 · seedream-3
AR · May 1, 2026
1,082
#36 · flux-1-kontext-max
AR · May 1, 2026
1,074
#37 · flux-2-klein-9b
AR · May 1, 2026
1,069
#38 · qwen-image-prompt-extend
AR · May 1, 2026
1,060
#39 · flux-1-kontext-pro
AR · May 1, 2026
1,059
#40 · imagen-3.0-generate-002
AR · May 1, 2026
1,058
#41 · qwen-image
AR · May 1, 2026
1,057
#42 · ideogram-v3-quality
AR · May 1, 2026
1,049
#43 · p-image
AR · May 1, 2026
1,036
#44 · photon
AR · May 1, 2026
1,035
#45 · flux-2-klein-4b
AR · May 1, 2026
1,027
#46 · runway-gen4
AR · May 1, 2026
1,026
#47 · recraft-v3
AR · May 1, 2026
1,021
#48 · flux-1.1-pro
AR · May 1, 2026
1,016
#49 · ideogram-v2
AR · May 1, 2026
1,013
#50 · lucid-origin
AR · May 1, 2026
1,013
#51 · glm-image
AR · May 1, 2026
1,011
#52 · gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation
AR · May 1, 2026
975
#53 · flux-1-dev-fp8
AR · May 1, 2026
969
#54 · dall-e-3
AR · May 1, 2026
968
#55 · flux-1-kontext-dev
AR · May 1, 2026
940
#56 · stable-diffusion-v35-large
AR · May 1, 2026
938
#57 · bagel
AR · May 1, 2026
898