LMArena · Text-to-image
We regularly fetch and display public benchmark data: LMArena user voting rankings, Epoch AI test scores, and OpenRouter usage rankings. Each leaderboard shows both its publication date and the date we retrieved it. These scores are not assigned by this site.
How to read this leaderboard
What it measures: An image generation ranking based on LMArena votes comparing two images generated from the same prompt with model names hidden.
How to read the score: A relative score reflecting which images users preferred. Overlapping confidence intervals alone do not establish that two models have equal capability.
Caveats: This is not a composite metric that separately evaluates size, speed and price. Check your required conditions, such as rendering Korean (Hangul) characters, and costs separately.
Insights from this ranking
- The 95% confidence intervals for 1st-place gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and 2nd-place gpt-image-2.5-flare do not overlap. This aggregation provides relatively clear evidence that the 1st-place model leads.
- OpenAI has the most models among the top 10, with 3.
- The 1st-place model received 10,884 votes, and this leaderboard includes 50 models.
Text-to-image LMArena
Published 2026-09-24 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
Dots show scores; horizontal lines show 95% confidence intervals. Overlapping intervals suggest similar performance. The chart shows only the highest-scoring reasoning setting, such as high or max, for each model. The table shows rankings for all settings.
Top ranking by company
- OOpenAIgpt-image-2.5-sunburst#1
- MMicrosoft AImai-image-2.6#4
- RRevereve-2.1#5
- xxAIgrok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)#6
- Metamuse-image#7
- Googlegemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]#9
- ByteDanceseedream-5.0-pro#10
- Alibabaqwen-image-3.0-pro#11
- IIdeogramideogram-4.0-quality#18
View table (top 50)
| Rank | Model | Developer | Score | 95% confidence interval | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #1Ogpt-image-2.5-sunburst | OpenAI | 1424 | 1416–1431 | 10,884 |
| 2 | #2Ogpt-image-2.5-flare | OpenAI | 1401 | 1393–1409 | 10,058 |
| 3 | #3Ogpt-image-2 (medium) | OpenAI | 1383 | 1379–1387 | 88,744 |
| 4 | #4Mmai-image-2.6 | Microsoft AI | 1335 | 1329–1341 | 18,625 |
| 5 | #5Rreve-2.1 | Reve | 1302 | 1295–1310 | 8,305 |
| 6 | #6xgrok-imagine-image-2.0 (low) | xAI | 1301 | 1293–1308 | 7,257 |
| 7 | #7muse-image | Meta | 1276 | 1271–1281 | 35,422 |
| 8 | #8Rreve-2.0 | Reve | 1269 | 1263–1275 | 15,802 |
| 9 | #9gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] | 1261 | 1257–1265 | 53,228 | |
| 10 | #10seedream-5.0-pro | ByteDance | 1256 | 1252–1260 | 85,690 |
| 11 | #11qwen-image-3.0-pro | Alibaba | 1256 | 1249–1262 | 11,520 |
| 12 | #12Mmai-image-2.5 | Microsoft AI | 1254 | 1250–1258 | 61,448 |
| 13 | #13gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) | 1250 | 1244–1256 | 17,851 | |
| 14 | #14gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) | 1247 | 1244–1250 | 168,447 | |
| 15 | #15Ogpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity | OpenAI | 1238 | 1235–1242 | 165,437 |
| 16 | #16gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) | 1234 | 1229–1239 | 86,451 | |
| 17 | #17qwen-image-2.1 | Alibaba | 1228 | 1219–1237 | 4,445 |
| 18 | #18Iideogram-4.0-quality | Ideogram | 1205 | 1201–1209 | 53,371 |
| 19 | #19qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 | Alibaba | 1192 | 1186–1197 | 13,123 |
| 20 | #20Luni-1.1-max | Luma AI | 1189 | 1183–1195 | 14,083 |
| 21 | #21Mmai-image-2 | Microsoft AI | 1184 | 1179–1188 | 51,477 |
| 22 | #22Luni-1.1 | Luma AI | 1183 | 1179–1188 | 41,412 |
| 23 | #23xgrok-imagine-image | xAI | 1170 | 1168–1173 | 262,132 |
| 24 | #24Rrecraft-v4.1-utility-pro | Recraft | 1169 | 1158–1180 | 2,618 |
| 25 | #25Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) | NVIDIA | 1165 | 1158–1172 | 10,856 |
| 26 | #26xgrok-imagine-image-pro | xAI | 1162 | 1158–1166 | 99,444 |
| 27 | #27Bflux-2-max | Black Forest Labs | 1162 | 1159–1166 | 123,187 |
| 28 | #28Bflux-2-flex | Black Forest Labs | 1157 | 1153–1160 | 156,912 |
| 29 | #29Rreve-v1.5 | Reve | 1155 | 1151–1159 | 39,755 |
| 30 | #30Bflux-2-pro | Black Forest Labs | 1154 | 1151–1157 | 205,540 |
| 31 | #31Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image | NVIDIA | 1152 | 1146–1158 | 18,581 |
| 32 | #32gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) | 1150 | 1148–1153 | 878,451 | |
| 33 | #33Thunyuan-image-3.0 | Tencent | 1150 | 1146–1153 | 180,550 |
| 34 | #34imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 | 1148 | 1143–1152 | 388,772 | |
| 35 | #35seedream-4.5 | ByteDance | 1147 | 1145–1150 | 287,128 |
| 36 | #36Bflux-2-dev | Black Forest Labs | 1146 | 1141–1150 | 78,080 |
| 37 | #37seedream-4-2k | ByteDance | 1140 | 1133–1147 | 12,566 |
| 38 | #38seedream-5.0-lite | ByteDance | 1138 | 1135–1141 | 123,178 |
| 39 | #39wan2.6-t2i | Alibaba | 1137 | 1134–1139 | 223,535 |
| 40 | #40Rrecraft-v4.1-pro | Recraft | 1133 | 1122–1143 | 2,795 |
| 41 | #41imagen-4.0-generate-001 | 1129 | 1126–1132 | 539,788 | |
| 42 | #42qwen-image-2512 | Alibaba | 1125 | 1122–1129 | 98,363 |
| 43 | #43Kkrea-2-medium | Krea | 1123 | 1119–1127 | 50,800 |
| 44 | #44seedream-4-fal | ByteDance | 1117 | 1110–1123 | 11,842 |
| 45 | #45wan2.5-t2i-preview | Alibaba | 1116 | 1114–1119 | 271,922 |
| 46 | #46Hhidream-o1-image | Hidream | 1116 | 1112–1120 | 59,511 |
| 47 | #47Ogpt-image-1 | OpenAI | 1116 | 1113–1119 | 268,466 |
| 48 | #48Rrecraft-v4 | Recraft | 1115 | 1112–1118 | 129,674 |
| 49 | #49seedream-4-high-res-fal | ByteDance | 1113 | 1110–1117 | 182,669 |
| 50 | #50Kkrea-2-turbo | Krea | 1113 | 1108–1117 | 43,913 |
Data: LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC BY 4.0). Changes: Top 50 entries per leaderboard; scores are rounded. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-datasetCompany logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only for identification (icons: Simple Icons).Data: Epoch AI — Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY 4.0). https://epoch.ai/benchmarksSource: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-04. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. https://openrouter.ai/rankings