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LMArena Text-to-Image leaderboard: who is #1

LMArena · Arena rating, higher is better · 75 models · published Sep 21, 2026

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Top 25 of 75 models, best variant per model as published

#ModelScoreCorrect
1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburstas “gpt-image-2.5-sunburst”1,423
2GPT Image 2.5 Flareas “gpt-image-2.5-flare”1,401
3GPT Image 2as “gpt-image-2 (medium)”1,381
4MAI Image 2.6as “mai-image-2.6”1,334
5Grok Imagine Image 2.0as “grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)”1,302
6Reve 2.1as “reve-2.1”1,301
7Muse Imageas “muse-image”1,276
8Reve 2.0as “reve-2.0”1,270
9Gemini 3.1 Flash Imageas “gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]”1,260
10Seedream 5.0 Proas “seedream-5.0-pro”1,256
11Qwen Image 3.0 Proas “qwen-image-3.0-pro”1,254
12MAI Image 2.5as “mai-image-2.5”1,254
13Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Imageas “gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)”1,250
14Gemini 3 Pro Imageas “gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)”1,246
15GPT Image 1.5 Fidelityas “gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity”1,239
16Qwen Image 2.1as “qwen-image-2.1”1,228
17Ideogram 4.0 Qualityas “ideogram-4.0-quality”1,204
18Qwen Image 2.0 Proas “qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22”1,191
19Uni 1.1as “uni-1.1-max”1,188
20MAI Image 2as “mai-image-2”1,183
21Grok Imagine Imageas “grok-imagine-image”1,171
22Recraft V4.1 Utility Proas “recraft-v4.1-utility-pro”1,169
23Cosmos3 Super Text2imageas “Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)”1,165
24Flux 2as “flux-2-max”1,162
25Grok Imagine Image Proas “grok-imagine-image-pro”1,161
About this board and its history

What it measures

Blind votes between two images generated from the same prompt.

Rank at each month's end

12345678910SepOctNovDecJan 26FebMarAprMayJunJulAugNow1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst2GPT Image 2.5 Flare3GPT Image 24MAI Image 2.65Grok Imagine Image 2.06Reve 2.1810910
GPT Image 2.5 SunburstGPT Image 2.5 FlareGPT Image 2MAI Image 2.6Grok Imagine Image 2.0Reve 2.1Gemini 2.5 Flash ImageSeedream 4Hunyuan Image 3.0Gemini 3 Pro Image

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Source

Scores as published by LMArena on the capture date (2026-09-24). Source: lmarena.ai leaderboard page data.

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Sources: each leaderboard's own published results page, captured every day at 04:30 UTC. Scores exactly as each board published them; we run no evaluations. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

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