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Text-to-image, ranked by people choosing between two results.

Right now

gpt-image-2 (medium) from OpenAI currently ranks first for making pictures from text, ahead of Reve 2.1 from Reve. The ranking comes from LMArena and was last published 2026-08-07.

Leader
gpt-image-2 (medium)
Made by
OpenAI
Score
1380
Source
LMArena

Full ranking Human head-to-head preference votes, Bradley-Terry rating.

Rank# Model Made by Arena score Votes
1 gpt-image-2 (medium) OpenAI 1,380 69,194
2 Reve 2.1 Reve 1,302 7,598
3 Muse Image Meta 1,283 14,510
4 Reve 2.0 Reve 1,270 14,650
5 gemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search] Google 1,263 27,910
6 Qwen Image 3.0 Pro Alibaba 1,258 3,735
7 Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance 1,257 26,510
8 Mai Image 2.5 Microsoft-Ai 1,256 44,940
9 gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite) Google 1,251 16,419
10 gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) Google 1,246 138,756
11 GPT Image 1.5 High Fidelity OpenAI 1,239 142,427
12 gemini-3-pro-image-preview (nano-banana-pro) Google 1,232 82,835
13 Grok Imagine Image Quality xAI 1,228 48,786
14 Ideogram 4.0 Quality Open Ideogram 1,206 27,891
15 Qwen Image 2.0 Pro 2026.06.22 Alibaba 1,191 12,026
16 Uni 1.1 Max Luma AI 1,188 13,491
17 Mai Image 2 Microsoft-Ai 1,182 49,207
18 Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image (Agentic) Open NVIDIA 1,181 2,957
19 Uni 1.1 Luma AI 1,180 26,927
20 Grok Imagine Image xAI 1,172 217,461
21 Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro Recraft 1,169 2,519
22 Flux 2 Max Bfl 1,162 117,464
23 Grok Imagine Image Pro xAI 1,161 93,711
24 Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Open NVIDIA 1,158 4,669
25 Flux 2 Flex Bfl 1,156 149,402

Published by LMArena on 2026-08-07 · copied here 2026-09-02 · no adjustment applied

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