Best AI Generator for Cartoon & Anime: Arena Ranked

Text-to-Image Arena🐉Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy

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Sep 24, 2026

2,568,574 votes

81 models

	Rank Spread
1	12	gpt-image-2.5-sunburst OpenAI · Proprietary	1441±12	4,090
2	13	gpt-image-2.5-flare OpenAI · Proprietary	1418±12	3,879
3	23	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1402±6	35,954
4	45	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (canvas) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1373±18	1,255
5	45	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1350±9	7,432
6	67	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1312±11	3,231
7	67	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (20260801) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1311±12	2,529
8	810	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1283±7	13,469
9	813	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1277±10	4,314
10	813	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1276±9	5,991
11	914	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1270±6	31,564
12	914	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1270±6	24,264
13	914	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1263±6	20,152
14	1116	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1256±8	6,765
15	1418	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1244±5	67,783
16	1418	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1244±5	64,596
17	1518	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1239±7	34,880
18	1518	qwen-image-2.1 Alibaba · qwen-research	1227±14	1,601
19	1924	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1196±6	20,629
20	1925	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1194±9	5,289
21	1925	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1192±6	15,238
22	1926	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1188±9	4,936
23	1927	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1185±9	4,236
24	2027	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1181±7	21,212
25	1932	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1178±18	975
26	2230	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1176±8	7,167
27	2328	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1175±4	106,576
28	2532	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1168±5	45,061
29	2632	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1165±5	40,693
30	2632	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1164±5	58,685
31	2733	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1162±5	72,804
32	2733	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1160±4	76,737
33	3340	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1149±4	115,892
34	3142	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1149±10	4,904
35	3342	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1147±4	89,499
36	3342	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1146±3	350,137
37	3342	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1143±5	45,633
38	3342	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1143±5	31,289
39	3342	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1142±6	14,479
40	3342	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1141±5	151,973
41	3442	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1138±6	19,556
42	4248	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1126±5	37,998
43	3453	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1125±17	994
44	4250	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1125±7	16,822
45	4251	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1120±4	211,271
46	4251	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1119±4	107,973
47	4253	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1118±6	22,872
48	4253	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1116±6	19,339
49	4353	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1115±5	105,831
50	4453	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1113±5	52,071
51	4653	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1109±5	73,599
52	4355	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1109±9	4,385
53	4655	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1108±5	67,689
54	5255	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1099±5	37,854
55	5260	recraft-v4.1-flash Recraft · Proprietary	1089±16	1,262
56	5560	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1080±5	24,112
57	5560	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1080±8	14,167
58	5560	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1080±6	13,595
59	5560	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1077±6	13,636
60	5563	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1068±7	9,850
61	6063	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1064±5	56,033
62	6063	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1062±4	278,908
63	6064	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1058±5	124,912
64	6365	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1053±4	33,766
65	6465	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1048±5	156,858
66	6668	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1027±5	46,499
67	6668	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1026±5	53,022
68	6670	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1023±5	56,494
69	6873	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1016±5	38,200
70	6873	p-image Proprietary	1014±5	44,599
71	6973	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1007±5	112,128
72	6973	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1007±7	19,488
73	6975	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	1002±13	1,903
74	7375	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	995±5	39,350
75	7375	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	988±6	105,399
76	7676	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	976±5	86,789
77	7779	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	957±5	26,568
78	7779	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	954±5	101,320
79	7779	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	946±6	12,274
80	8080	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	924±5	80,087
81	8181	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	885±9	4,804

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