Text-to-Image Leaderboard: Best AI Image Generators

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View overall rankings across text to image AI models.

Oct 7, 2026

6,604,125 votes

19 open source models

				Rank Spread
1	19	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1223±7	1819	11,441
2	20	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1205±4	2020	60,591
3	27	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1165±7	2531	10,805
4	33	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1152±6	3039	18,485
5	35	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1150±3	3139	180,518
6	38	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1146±4	3340	77,988
7	44	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1125±3	4246	98,288
8	47	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1116±4	4654	66,906
9	52	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1113±4	4655	51,552
10	59	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1083±5	5960	24,808
11	62	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1070±3	6162	150,782
12	63	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1060±3	6366	716,773
13	66	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1057±3	6366	84,550
14	70	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1030±3	6871	152,389
15	76	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	1012±9	7176	4,854
16	78	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	969±4	7779	49,221
17	80	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	941±4	8081	216,225
18	81	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	938±5	8081	23,396
19	82	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	898±6	8282	12,363

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