Text-to-Image Leaderboard: Best AI Image Generators

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Oct 5, 2026

6,583,920 votes

81 models

	Rank Spread
1	11	gpt-image-2.5-sunburst OpenAI · Proprietary	1425±7	16,652
2	22	gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI · Proprietary	1397±7	15,792
3	33	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1384±4	92,549
4	45	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1336±12	3,070
5	45	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1333±5	23,918
6	67	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1302±8	8,250
7	67	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1297±6	13,278
8	89	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1274±5	41,071
9	810	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1269±6	15,774
10	913	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1261±4	59,301
11	1014	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1256±4	93,111
12	1015	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1255±6	11,443
13	1015	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1254±4	61,268
14	1115	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1250±6	17,808
15	1215	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1248±3	174,535
16	1617	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1238±3	169,194
17	1618	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1234±5	86,464
18	1718	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1222±7	10,231
19	1919	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1205±4	59,356
20	2023	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1192±6	13,099
21	2023	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1189±6	14,073
22	2023	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1185±4	45,797
23	2024	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1184±5	51,474
24	2426	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1170±3	270,444
25	2330	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1169±11	2,617
26	2430	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1165±7	10,803
27	2530	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1162±4	99,452
28	2530	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1162±3	123,194
29	2532	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1157±3	156,918
30	2535	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1155±4	39,695
31	2936	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1153±3	211,175
32	2938	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1152±6	18,480
33	3037	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1150±2	888,524
34	3038	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1149±3	180,521
35	3138	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1148±3	297,919
36	3039	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1148±4	388,746
37	3239	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1146±4	77,991
38	3341	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1140±7	12,562
39	3841	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1138±3	128,823
40	3841	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1137±3	231,678
41	3645	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1133±10	2,795
42	4144	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1129±3	539,734
43	4145	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1125±3	98,286
44	4146	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1124±4	56,809
45	4253	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1117±7	11,841
46	4453	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1116±4	65,582
47	4553	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1116±3	268,448
48	4553	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1115±3	277,864
49	4553	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1115±3	135,677
50	4553	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1114±4	50,286
51	4553	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1113±3	182,688
52	4555	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1111±4	55,723
53	4555	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1110±3	171,054
54	5256	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1104±5	30,225
55	5457	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1101±5	30,630
56	5257	recraft-v4.1-flash Recraft · Proprietary	1100±9	3,518
57	5557	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1093±4	98,410
58	5859	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1083±5	24,724
59	5860	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1082±5	36,886
60	5961	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1074±3	65,510
61	6061	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1070±3	150,780
62	6265	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1060±3	716,788
63	6265	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1059±3	332,364
64	6265	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1058±3	359,777
65	6265	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1057±3	84,550
66	6666	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1048±4	118,538
67	6769	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1036±4	130,159
68	6769	p-image Proprietary	1033±3	109,765
69	6770	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1030±3	152,385
70	6972	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1024±4	54,361
71	7073	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	1021±4	195,626
72	7175	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1016±4	70,460
73	7275	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	1013±4	72,090
74	7275	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1013±3	287,343
75	7075	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	1012±9	4,854
76	7677	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	975±3	257,228
77	7678	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	969±4	49,221
78	7778	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	968±4	238,742
79	7980	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	941±4	216,223
80	7980	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	938±5	23,396
81	8181	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	898±6	12,363

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