Best AI Art Generator: Text-to-Image Leaderboard

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Sep 24, 2026

880,353 votes

81 models

	Rank Spread
1	13	gpt-image-2.5-sunburst OpenAI · Proprietary	1391±16	1,544
2	14	gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI · Proprietary	1370±16	1,547
3	14	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1367±8	11,641
4	25	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1340±31	384
5	45	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1337±12	2,777
6	68	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1292±17	1,213
7	610	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1288±18	1,048
8	611	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1277±8	9,166
9	714	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1266±7	12,283
10	714	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1262±9	5,122
11	815	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1258±13	2,163
12	915	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1255±12	2,538
13	915	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1255±14	1,685
14	1115	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1240±8	7,913
15	918	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1236±23	608
16	1518	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1225±6	23,541
17	1518	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1224±6	24,149
18	1519	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1215±8	13,144
19	1823	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1203±8	7,826
20	1928	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1193±12	2,023
21	1929	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1192±14	1,669
22	1929	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1188±8	6,066
23	1939	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1178±27	402
24	2030	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1178±5	34,849
25	2032	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1177±13	1,921
26	2031	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1177±8	6,412
27	2033	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1175±11	2,596
28	2333	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1169±6	17,560
29	2437	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1165±7	13,718
30	2141	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1164±16	1,675
31	2045	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1161±25	430
32	2538	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1161±5	29,493
33	2638	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1159±5	29,273
34	2838	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1157±5	39,252
35	2841	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1155±6	22,977
36	2841	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1154±8	7,391
37	2841	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1153±7	26,862
38	2943	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1150±7	11,670
39	3343	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1146±4	116,667
40	3245	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1144±8	5,989
41	3746	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1139±6	16,875
42	3747	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1136±9	6,073
43	3947	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1131±6	14,838
44	4151	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1128±7	46,502
45	3356	recraft-v4.1-flash Recraft · Proprietary	1126±23	546
46	4251	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1125±6	17,453
47	3955	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1120±16	1,396
48	4454	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1119±5	38,886
49	4455	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1117±8	7,395
50	4455	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1117±7	8,466
51	4455	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1116±6	34,456
52	4655	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1112±6	23,849
53	4655	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1112±6	24,958
54	4655	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1110±5	67,300
55	4756	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1105±7	15,135
56	5461	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1091±11	4,758
57	5662	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1081±9	7,204
58	5662	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1078±6	20,287
59	5662	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1078±10	3,136
60	5662	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1077±10	3,194
61	5663	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1073±10	3,471
62	5765	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1066±7	39,743
63	6166	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1059±7	59,553
64	6267	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1056±5	88,519
65	6267	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1055±7	8,604
66	6369	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1047±7	21,177
67	6471	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1044±7	18,271
68	6672	p-image Proprietary	1040±7	14,348
69	6672	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1039±7	17,420
70	6773	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1031±7	34,440
71	6874	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1028±6	20,614
72	6776	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	1018±20	761
73	7075	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1017±8	7,006
74	7175	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	1017±7	18,774
75	7276	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	1010±8	38,798
76	7477	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	998±9	5,340
77	7678	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	991±7	35,616
78	7779	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	978±8	12,769
79	7879	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	964±7	30,594
80	8081	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	927±7	26,006
81	8081	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	910±16	1,394

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