Text-to-Image Leaderboard - Best AI Image Generators

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View overall rankings across text to image AI models.

Sep 4, 2026

1,726,124 votes

76 models

	Rank Spread
1	11	gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI · Proprietary	1428±7	28,979
2	23	mai-image-2.6 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1368±12	3,163
3	24	grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low) SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1352±20	887
4	34	reve-2.1 Reve · Proprietary	1341±12	2,537
5	58	muse-image Meta · Proprietary	1302±8	7,968
6	59	reve-2.0 Reve · Proprietary	1297±9	5,119
7	59	gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google · Proprietary	1292±7	13,445
8	511	qwen-image-3.0-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1284±11	3,453
9	610	mai-image-2.5 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1283±6	19,616
10	811	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google · Proprietary	1276±9	5,413
11	911	gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1270±5	50,138
12	1214	seedream-5.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1255±7	19,057
13	1214	gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google · Proprietary	1254±7	24,654
14	1214	gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity OpenAI · Proprietary	1254±5	54,254
15	1515	ideogram-4.0-quality Ideogram · Ideogram Open Model	1238±7	13,421
16	1618	uni-1.1-max Luma AI · Proprietary	1217±9	4,609
17	1618	uni-1.1 Luma AI · Proprietary	1203±7	11,289
18	1619	qwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22 Alibaba · Proprietary	1201±9	4,046
19	1823	reve-v1.5 Reve · Proprietary	1185±6	12,655
20	1922	grok-imagine-image SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1185±4	84,267
21	1924	grok-imagine-image-pro SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1182±6	33,081
22	1926	mai-image-2 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1175±7	18,483
23	2126	flux-2-flex Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1172±5	49,932
24	2227	flux-2-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1167±5	40,348
25	2036	recraft-v4.1-utility-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1162±18	924
26	2434	flux-2-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1158±6	23,135
27	2239	recraft-v4.1-pro Recraft · Proprietary	1156±17	918
28	2534	flux-2-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1155±4	63,038
29	2534	gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview (nano-banana) Google · Proprietary	1154±4	223,493
30	2536	hunyuan-image-3.0 Tencent · tencent-hunyuan-community	1150±5	50,479
31	2536	wan2.6-t2i Alibaba · Proprietary	1149±4	71,190
32	2537	imagen-ultra-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1148±6	90,098
33	2540	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1148±14	1,500
34	2839	wan2.5-t2i-preview Alibaba · Proprietary	1143±4	80,540
35	2541	seedream-4-2k Bytedance · Proprietary	1143±11	3,106
36	2839	seedream-4.5 Bytedance · Proprietary	1142±4	87,719
37	3140	recraft-v4 Recraft · Proprietary	1139±5	39,849
38	3242	hidream-o1-image HiDream · MIT	1135±6	15,130
39	3241	seedream-5.0-lite Bytedance · Proprietary	1134±5	38,241
40	3747	krea-2-medium Krea · Proprietary	1125±7	12,845
41	3549	seedream-4-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1124±11	2,750
42	4046	imagen-4.0-generate-001 Google · Proprietary	1124±4	138,856
43	4048	qwen-image-2512 Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1123±5	29,146
44	3950	Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nvidia · OpenMDW-1.1	1119±10	3,250
45	4049	wan2.7-image-pro Alibaba · Proprietary	1118±7	12,033
46	4149	gpt-image-1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1115±5	71,076
47	4050	wan2.7-image Alibaba · Proprietary	1114±7	12,025
48	4251	krea-2-large Krea · Proprietary	1111±7	12,556
49	4350	seedream-4-high-res-fal Bytedance · Proprietary	1110±5	55,618
50	4651	gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · Proprietary	1104±5	55,727
51	4951	krea-2-turbo Krea · krea-2-community-license	1097±7	9,918
52	5252	qwen-image-prompt-extend Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1082±4	183,527
53	5356	flux-1-kontext-max Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1071±6	15,718
54	5356	ideogram-v3-quality Ideogram · Proprietary	1071±6	32,661
55	5356	mai-image-1 Microsoft AI · Proprietary	1070±5	30,459
56	5361	z-image-turbo Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1059±8	6,817
57	5661	flux-2-klein-9b Black Forest Labs · flux-non-commercial-license	1057±5	51,605
58	5662	flux-1-kontext-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	1053±5	78,250
59	5664	seedream-3 Bytedance · Proprietary	1052±8	9,062
60	5664	qwen-image Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1048±5	15,569
61	5664	ideogram-v2 Ideogram · Proprietary	1046±8	10,893
62	5864	imagen-3.0-generate-002 Google · Proprietary	1045±5	76,565
63	5964	photon Luma AI · Proprietary	1041±6	33,069
64	5967	glm-image Z.ai · MIT	1033±14	1,413
65	6467	p-image Proprietary	1021±5	36,600
66	6468	runway-gen4 Runway · Proprietary	1019±6	18,924
67	6470	flux-2-klein-4b Black Forest Labs · Apache 2.0	1015±5	52,381
68	6671	gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Google · Proprietary	1007±6	58,752
69	6771	lucid-origin Leonardo AI · Proprietary	1005±5	67,476
70	6771	recraft-v3 Recraft · Proprietary	1005±5	42,525
71	6871	flux-1.1-pro Black Forest Labs · Proprietary	995±8	10,769
72	7273	dall-e-3 OpenAI · Proprietary	969±6	49,760
73	7274	flux-1-dev-fp8 Black Forest Labs · Open	963±9	6,736
74	7374	flux-1-kontext-dev Black Forest Labs · flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license	953±6	50,069
75	7575	stable-diffusion-v35-large Open	922±11	3,222
76	7676	bagel Bytedance · Apache 2.0	875±11	3,138

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