Best AI Portrait Generator: Text-to-Image Leaderboard

Text-to-Image Arena👤Portraits

View overall rankings across text to image AI models.

Oct 7, 2026

1,640,706 votes

82 models

	Rank Spread
1	12	gpt-image-2.5-sunburst OpenAI · Proprietary	1467±14	2,898
2	13	gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI · Proprietary	1442±14	2,725
3	23	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1430±8	17,754
4	48	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1353±23	759
5	47	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1346±10	4,700
6	48	gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Google · Proprietary	1337±19	1,068
7	48	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1334±12	2,808
8	59	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1319±15	1,654
9	812	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1299±8	8,010
10	912	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1293±7	18,886
11	912	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1284±11	3,242
12	912	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1284±13	2,364
13	1318	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1263±7	12,271
14	1318	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1262±6	33,150
15	1318	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1259±5	39,652
16	1318	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1257±7	11,797
17	1319	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1248±13	2,416
18	1319	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1246±10	3,725
19	1720	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1237±8	21,898
20	1921	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1218±12	2,575
21	2022	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1209±8	11,495
22	2123	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1200±7	12,670
23	2230	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1185±11	2,667
24	2326	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1185±5	61,338
25	2333	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1175±7	9,333
26	2433	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1174±6	22,498
27	2533	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1168±5	66,619
28	2346	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1168±25	518
29	2533	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1168±4	240,632
30	2435	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1168±6	111,749
31	2438	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1164±11	3,119
32	2438	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1164±10	4,034
33	2939	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1158±6	28,175
34	2941	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1156±6	27,943
35	3046	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1151±7	7,847
36	3046	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1149±7	11,157
37	2554	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1147±23	612
38	3447	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1145±5	146,782
39	3348	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1145±6	35,646
40	3448	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1145±6	44,815
41	3448	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1143±5	47,453
42	3448	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1143±6	21,657
43	3350	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1143±9	5,763
44	3450	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1142±8	10,617
45	3250	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1142±11	3,654
46	3056	recraft-v4.1-flash Recraft · Proprietary	1137±23	586
47	3751	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1135±5	43,350
48	3853	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1133±6	17,434
49	4255	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1129±8	7,188
50	4255	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1126±8	7,297
51	4655	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1124±5	51,703
52	4655	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1124±6	30,185
53	4556	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1123±7	11,006
54	4758	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1117±10	3,608
55	4857	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1116±5	66,027
56	5258	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1112±6	35,970
57	5460	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1105±7	14,158
58	5562	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1101±9	10,448
59	5762	p-image Proprietary	1098±6	25,205
60	5763	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1094±6	20,383
61	5863	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1093±6	34,768
62	5863	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1091±5	63,079
63	6065	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1086±6	19,690
64	6365	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1077±6	88,797
65	6365	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1077±5	28,684
66	6667	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1065±6	96,451
67	6671	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1054±6	34,888
68	6771	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1052±5	201,849
69	6772	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1050±6	29,296
70	6772	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1043±7	14,171
71	6772	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1042±6	74,162
72	6972	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	1039±6	44,301
73	7375	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1024±6	32,379
74	7376	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1020±7	13,061
75	7376	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	1019±7	14,547
76	7477	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	999±17	1,093
77	7677	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	999±7	10,614
78	7878	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	961±6	75,750
79	7980	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	944±6	64,289
80	7981	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	941±9	5,704
81	8082	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	926±11	3,499
82	8182	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	925±7	60,355

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