AI image model rankings
As of November 4, 2026, GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst by OpenAI leads the Arena text-to-image board with a score of 1427, ahead of GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium) (1409). 84 models are ranked from 10,555,788 human votes.
Scores belong to this board and are not comparable across modalities.
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Source: Arena, CC BY 4.0. Read November 5, 2026.
| Source rank | Model | Organization | Arena score | Margin | Votes | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst | OpenAI | 1427 | ±5 | 54,913 | November 4, 2026 |
| 2 | GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium) | OpenAI | 1409 | ±13 | 2,967 | November 4, 2026 |
| 3 | GPT-Image-2.5 Flare | OpenAI | 1399 | ±5 | 53,925 | November 4, 2026 |
| 4 | GPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium) | OpenAI | 1384 | ±13 | 2,792 | November 4, 2026 |
| 5 | GPT-Image-2 (Medium) | OpenAI | 1382 | ±4 | 106,737 | November 4, 2026 |
| 6 | MAI-Image-2.6 | Microsoft AI | 1331 | ±5 | 38,071 | November 4, 2026 |
| 7 | Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 | 1325 | ±9 | 5,239 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 8 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 | xAI | 1317 | ±7 | 10,830 | November 4, 2026 |
| 9 | Reve 2.1 | Reve | 1300 | ±8 | 8,237 | November 4, 2026 |
| 10 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (20260801) | xAI | 1291 | ±5 | 30,734 | November 4, 2026 |
| 11 | Muse Image | Meta | 1268 | ±5 | 57,568 | November 4, 2026 |
| 12 | Reve 2.0 | Reve | 1268 | ±6 | 15,756 | November 4, 2026 |
| 13 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search) | 1257 | ±4 | 77,495 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 14 | Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro | Alibaba | 1254 | ±6 | 11,412 | November 4, 2026 |
| 15 | MAI-Image-2.5 | Microsoft AI | 1253 | ±4 | 61,222 | November 4, 2026 |
| 16 | Seedream 5.0 Pro | ByteDance | 1251 | ±4 | 109,680 | November 4, 2026 |
| 17 | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite) | 1249 | ±6 | 17,787 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 18 | Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K) | 1246 | ±3 | 191,257 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 19 | GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity) | OpenAI | 1236 | ±3 | 173,798 | November 4, 2026 |
| 20 | Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro) | 1232 | ±5 | 86,446 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 21 | Qwen-Image-2.1 | Alibaba | 1227 | ±6 | 19,378 | November 4, 2026 |
| 22 | Ideogram 4.0 (Quality) | Ideogram | 1199 | ±4 | 77,424 | November 4, 2026 |
| 23 | Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) | Alibaba | 1192 | ±6 | 13,081 | November 4, 2026 |
| 24 | UNI-1.1 Max | Luma AI | 1189 | ±6 | 14,079 | November 4, 2026 |
| 25 | MAI-Image-2 | Microsoft AI | 1183 | ±5 | 51,435 | November 4, 2026 |
| 26 | UNI-1.1 | Luma AI | 1183 | ±4 | 58,567 | November 4, 2026 |
| 27 | Grok Imagine Image | xAI | 1169 | ±3 | 292,345 | November 4, 2026 |
| 28 | Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro | Recraft | 1169 | ±11 | 2,622 | November 4, 2026 |
| 29 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) | NVIDIA | 1165 | ±7 | 10,750 | November 4, 2026 |
| 30 | FLUX.2 [max] | Black Forest Labs | 1161 | ±4 | 123,131 | November 4, 2026 |
| 31 | Grok Imagine Image Pro | xAI | 1161 | ±4 | 99,370 | November 4, 2026 |
| 32 | FLUX.2 [flex] | Black Forest Labs | 1156 | ±3 | 156,849 | November 4, 2026 |
| 33 | Reve v1.5 | Reve | 1154 | ±4 | 39,684 | November 4, 2026 |
| 34 | FLUX.2 [pro] | Black Forest Labs | 1153 | ±3 | 226,242 | November 4, 2026 |
| 35 | Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image | NVIDIA | 1151 | ±6 | 18,370 | November 4, 2026 |
| 36 | HunyuanImage 3.0 | Tencent | 1151 | ±3 | 180,461 | November 4, 2026 |
| 37 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana) | 1149 | ±2 | 911,746 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 38 | Seedream 4.5 | ByteDance | 1148 | ±3 | 323,656 | November 4, 2026 |
| 39 | Imagen 4 Ultra (generate-001) | 1146 | ±4 | 388,699 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 40 | FLUX.2 [dev] | Black Forest Labs | 1145 | ±4 | 77,924 | November 4, 2026 |
| 41 | Seedream 5.0 Lite | ByteDance | 1141 | ±3 | 145,323 | November 4, 2026 |
| 42 | Seedream 4.0 (2K) | ByteDance | 1139 | ±7 | 12,563 | November 4, 2026 |
| 43 | Wan 2.6 | Alibaba | 1138 | ±3 | 253,190 | November 4, 2026 |
| 44 | Recraft V4.1 Pro | Recraft | 1132 | ±10 | 2,798 | November 4, 2026 |
| 45 | Krea 2 Medium | Krea | 1129 | ±4 | 74,418 | November 4, 2026 |
| 46 | Imagen 4 (generate-001) | 1128 | ±3 | 539,617 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 47 | Qwen-Image (2512) | Alibaba | 1125 | ±3 | 98,252 | November 4, 2026 |
| 48 | Wan 2.5 Preview | Alibaba | 1117 | ±3 | 293,738 | November 4, 2026 |
| 49 | Seedream 4.0 (fal) | ByteDance | 1116 | ±7 | 11,841 | November 4, 2026 |
| 50 | Krea 2 Large | Krea | 1115 | ±4 | 71,664 | November 4, 2026 |
| 51 | GPT-Image-1 | OpenAI | 1115 | ±3 | 268,408 | November 4, 2026 |
| 52 | Recraft V4 | Recraft | 1115 | ±3 | 154,031 | November 4, 2026 |
| 53 | HiDream-O1-Image | HiDream | 1115 | ±4 | 79,970 | November 4, 2026 |
| 54 | Krea 2 Turbo | Krea | 1115 | ±4 | 67,389 | November 4, 2026 |
| 55 | Seedream 4.0 (High Res, fal) | ByteDance | 1113 | ±3 | 182,605 | November 4, 2026 |
| 56 | GPT-Image-1 mini | OpenAI | 1109 | ±3 | 170,972 | November 4, 2026 |
| 57 | Wan 2.7 Image Pro | Alibaba | 1103 | ±5 | 30,216 | November 4, 2026 |
| 58 | Wan 2.7 Image | Alibaba | 1101 | ±5 | 30,626 | November 4, 2026 |
| 59 | Recraft V4.1 Flash | Recraft | 1098 | ±10 | 3,438 | November 4, 2026 |
| 60 | MAI-Image-1 | Microsoft AI | 1092 | ±4 | 98,357 | November 4, 2026 |
| 61 | Z-Image-Turbo | Alibaba | 1082 | ±5 | 24,923 | November 4, 2026 |
| 62 | Seedream 3.0 | ByteDance | 1082 | ±5 | 36,894 | November 4, 2026 |
| 63 | FLUX.1 Kontext [max] | Black Forest Labs | 1075 | ±3 | 65,502 | November 4, 2026 |
| 64 | FLUX.2 [klein] 9B | Black Forest Labs | 1070 | ±3 | 150,686 | November 4, 2026 |
| 65 | Qwen-Image (Prompt Extend) | Alibaba | 1061 | ±3 | 716,605 | November 4, 2026 |
| 66 | FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] | Black Forest Labs | 1059 | ±3 | 332,345 | November 4, 2026 |
| 67 | Imagen 3 (generate-002) | 1057 | ±3 | 359,756 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 68 | Qwen-Image | Alibaba | 1057 | ±3 | 84,535 | November 4, 2026 |
| 69 | Ideogram 3.0 (Quality) | Ideogram | 1049 | ±4 | 118,540 | November 4, 2026 |
| 70 | Luma Photon | Luma AI | 1036 | ±4 | 130,178 | November 4, 2026 |
| 71 | P-Image | Not reported | 1032 | ±3 | 109,688 | November 4, 2026 |
| 72 | FLUX.2 [klein] 4B | Black Forest Labs | 1030 | ±3 | 152,284 | November 4, 2026 |
| 73 | Runway Gen-4 | Runway | 1024 | ±4 | 54,318 | November 4, 2026 |
| 74 | Recraft V3 | Recraft | 1022 | ±4 | 195,586 | November 4, 2026 |
| 75 | FLUX1.1 [pro] | Black Forest Labs | 1016 | ±3 | 70,460 | November 4, 2026 |
| 76 | Ideogram 2.0 | Ideogram | 1013 | ±4 | 72,090 | November 4, 2026 |
| 77 | Lucid Origin | Leonardo AI | 1013 | ±3 | 287,317 | November 4, 2026 |
| 78 | GLM-Image | Z.ai | 1012 | ±9 | 4,856 | November 4, 2026 |
| 79 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview Image Generation | 976 | ±3 | 257,202 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 80 | FLUX.1 [dev] (FP8) | Black Forest Labs | 969 | ±4 | 49,221 | November 4, 2026 |
| 81 | DALL-E 3 | OpenAI | 968 | ±4 | 238,732 | November 4, 2026 |
| 82 | FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] | Black Forest Labs | 941 | ±4 | 216,218 | November 4, 2026 |
| 83 | Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | Not reported | 938 | ±4 | 23,396 | November 4, 2026 |
| 84 | BAGEL | ByteDance | 897 | ±6 | 12,361 | November 4, 2026 |
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GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst leads Image editing at 1517 (63 models).
Source: Arena, CC BY 4.0. Read November 5, 2026.
| Source rank | Model | Organization | Arena score | Margin | Votes | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst | OpenAI | 1517 | ±5 | 114,468 | November 4, 2026 |
| 2 | GPT-Image-2.5 Flare | OpenAI | 1482 | ±5 | 111,635 | November 4, 2026 |
| 3 | GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium) | OpenAI | 1476 | ±10 | 3,833 | November 4, 2026 |
| 4 | MAI-Image-2.7-Preview | Microsoft AI | 1469 | ±7 | 12,728 | November 4, 2026 |
| 5 | GPT-Image-2.6 Flare (Medium) | OpenAI | 1462 | ±10 | 3,850 | November 4, 2026 |
| 6 | GPT-Image-2 (Medium) | OpenAI | 1460 | ±3 | 359,999 | November 4, 2026 |
| 7 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 | xAI | 1438 | ±6 | 37,138 | November 4, 2026 |
| 8 | Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 | 1427 | ±6 | 12,853 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 9 | MAI-Image-2.6 | Microsoft AI | 1426 | ±4 | 89,003 | November 4, 2026 |
| 10 | Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (20260801) | xAI | 1416 | ±4 | 114,884 | November 4, 2026 |
| 11 | Krea 3 Ultra | Krea | 1411 | ±11 | 2,918 | November 4, 2026 |
| 12 | MAI-Image-2.5 | Microsoft AI | 1400 | ±4 | 190,011 | November 4, 2026 |
| 13 | Muse Image | Meta | 1399 | ±4 | 196,287 | November 4, 2026 |
| 14 | Seedream 5.0 Pro | ByteDance | 1391 | ±3 | 342,188 | November 4, 2026 |
| 15 | Grok Imagine Image (Quality, 20260519) | xAI | 1391 | ±6 | 38,203 | November 4, 2026 |
| 16 | Gemini 3 Pro Image (nano-banana-pro, 2K) | 1390 | ±2 | 706,552 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 17 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (nano-banana-2, Web Search) | 1387 | ±3 | 283,121 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 18 | ChatGPT Image Latest (High Fidelity, 20251216) | OpenAI | 1386 | ±3 | 678,695 | November 4, 2026 |
| 19 | Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview (nano-banana-pro) | 1385 | ±3 | 540,524 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 20 | Reve 2.1 | Reve | 1374 | ±6 | 20,797 | November 4, 2026 |
| 21 | GPT-Image-1.5 (High Fidelity) | OpenAI | 1368 | ±3 | 704,550 | November 4, 2026 |
| 22 | Qwen-Image-2.1 | Alibaba | 1364 | ±6 | 41,482 | November 4, 2026 |
| 23 | Reve 2.0 | Reve | 1358 | ±6 | 19,289 | November 4, 2026 |
| 24 | Ideogram 4.5 | Ideogram | 1347 | ±4 | 87,673 | November 4, 2026 |
| 25 | UNI-1.1 Max | Luma AI | 1334 | ±5 | 43,467 | November 4, 2026 |
| 26 | Grok Imagine Image | xAI | 1328 | ±2 | 844,208 | November 4, 2026 |
| 27 | UNI-1.1 | Luma AI | 1316 | ±3 | 238,890 | November 4, 2026 |
| 28 | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (nano-banana-2-lite) | 1313 | ±5 | 65,603 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 29 | Seedream 4.5 | ByteDance | 1303 | ±2 | 1,406,120 | November 4, 2026 |
| 30 | Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) | Alibaba | 1302 | ±5 | 56,688 | November 4, 2026 |
| 31 | Wan 2.7 Image Pro | Alibaba | 1302 | ±4 | 43,970 | November 4, 2026 |
| 32 | HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct | Tencent | 1302 | ±3 | 331,417 | November 4, 2026 |
| 33 | Wan 2.7 Image | Alibaba | 1301 | ±4 | 44,782 | November 4, 2026 |
| 34 | Seedream 5.0 Lite | ByteDance | 1295 | ±3 | 520,751 | November 4, 2026 |
| 35 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana) | 1292 | ±2 | 11,489,917 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 36 | Seedream 4.0 (2K) | ByteDance | 1267 | ±7 | 210,026 | November 4, 2026 |
| 37 | FLUX.2 [max] | Black Forest Labs | 1261 | ±3 | 375,773 | November 4, 2026 |
| 38 | Reve v1.1 | Reve | 1261 | ±3 | 672,524 | November 4, 2026 |
| 39 | Kling Image O1 | Kling | 1250 | ±4 | 143,679 | November 4, 2026 |
| 40 | FLUX.2 [pro] | Black Forest Labs | 1248 | ±3 | 694,796 | November 4, 2026 |
| 41 | Qwen-Image-Edit | Alibaba | 1241 | ±3 | 2,021,532 | November 4, 2026 |
| 42 | Reve v1 | Reve | 1235 | ±5 | 395,056 | November 4, 2026 |
| 43 | Qwen-Image-Edit (2511) | Alibaba | 1233 | ±3 | 484,921 | November 4, 2026 |
| 44 | Wan 2.6 Image | Alibaba | 1231 | ±3 | 734,720 | November 4, 2026 |
| 45 | FLUX.2 [flex] | Black Forest Labs | 1225 | ±3 | 443,862 | November 4, 2026 |
| 46 | FLUX.2 [klein] 9B | Black Forest Labs | 1224 | ±3 | 540,673 | November 4, 2026 |
| 47 | FLUX.2 [dev] | Black Forest Labs | 1224 | ±4 | 254,033 | November 4, 2026 |
| 48 | Seedream 4.0 (High Res, fal) | ByteDance | 1216 | ±3 | 1,229,477 | November 4, 2026 |
| 49 | P-Image-Edit | Not reported | 1210 | ±3 | 359,820 | November 4, 2026 |
| 50 | Seedream 4.0 (fal) | ByteDance | 1210 | ±6 | 152,100 | November 4, 2026 |
| 51 | Reve v1.1 Fast | Reve | 1207 | ±3 | 553,195 | November 4, 2026 |
| 52 | Reve Edit Fast | Reve | 1198 | ±4 | 230,078 | November 4, 2026 |
| 53 | FLUX.2 [klein] 4B | Black Forest Labs | 1187 | ±3 | 541,193 | November 4, 2026 |
| 54 | FLUX.1 Kontext [max] | Black Forest Labs | 1182 | ±3 | 390,856 | November 4, 2026 |
| 55 | Wan 2.5 Preview | Alibaba | 1180 | ±3 | 723,596 | November 4, 2026 |
| 56 | FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] | Black Forest Labs | 1177 | ±3 | 6,404,206 | November 4, 2026 |
| 57 | FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] | Black Forest Labs | 1150 | ±3 | 3,639,585 | November 4, 2026 |
| 58 | SeedEdit 3.0 | ByteDance | 1139 | ±4 | 4,918,170 | November 4, 2026 |
| 59 | GPT-Image-1 | OpenAI | 1139 | ±3 | 2,869,508 | November 4, 2026 |
| 60 | GPT-Image-1 mini | OpenAI | 1124 | ±3 | 682,664 | November 4, 2026 |
| 61 | Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview Image Generation | 1082 | ±2 | 4,942,627 | November 4, 2026 | |
| 62 | BAGEL | ByteDance | 1026 | ±6 | 13,488 | November 4, 2026 |
| 63 | Step1X-Edit | StepFun | 996 | ±5 | 155,418 | November 4, 2026 |