LMArena Text-to-Image

Name: LMArena Text-to-Image rankings
Creator: LMArena
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Blind votes between two images generated from the same prompt.

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

#1 right now

1,423

Arena rating

Models ranked

Sep 21, 2026

Board published

Ranking

Best variant per model, as published. Higher is better.

1
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
as “gpt-image-2.5-sunburst”
1,423
2
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
as “gpt-image-2.5-flare”
1,401
3
GPT Image 2
as “gpt-image-2 (medium)”
1,381
4
MAI Image 2.6
as “mai-image-2.6”
1,334
5
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
as “grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)”
1,302
6
Reve 2.1
as “reve-2.1”
1,301
7
Muse Image
as “muse-image”
1,276
8
Reve 2.0
as “reve-2.0”
1,270
9
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image
as “gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]”
1,260
10
Seedream 5.0 Pro
as “seedream-5.0-pro”
1,256
11
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro
as “qwen-image-3.0-pro”
1,254
12
MAI Image 2.5
as “mai-image-2.5”
1,254
13
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image
as “gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)”
1,250
14
Gemini 3 Pro Image
as “gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)”
1,246
15
GPT Image 1.5 Fidelity
as “gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity”
1,239
16
Qwen Image 2.1
as “qwen-image-2.1”
1,228
17
Ideogram 4.0 Quality
as “ideogram-4.0-quality”
1,204
18
Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
as “qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22”
1,191
19
Uni 1.1
as “uni-1.1-max”
1,188
20
MAI Image 2
as “mai-image-2”
1,183
21
Grok Imagine Image
as “grok-imagine-image”
1,171
22
Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro
as “recraft-v4.1-utility-pro”
1,169
23
Cosmos3 Super Text2image
as “Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic)”
1,165
24
Flux 2
as “flux-2-max”
1,162
25
Grok Imagine Image Pro
as “grok-imagine-image-pro”
1,161